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For Milk Cows. — Alfalfa hay may furnish 60 per cent of 

 the protein of the ration of dairy cows with profit. In this 

 case, fifty per cent or even more of the concentrates of the 

 ration may consist of corn. It is not necessary, and usually 

 not profitable, to use bran in the ration when it contains 

 alfalfa as the roughage. 



For Work Horses. — Alfalfa hay, if not dusty, is very 

 suitable for work horses. When it is fed, there is no need 

 of feeding nitrogenous concentrates in addition to corn. It 

 is usually too laxative to furnish a very large part of the 

 roughage of driving horses. It perhaps may give better 

 results if fed with tim- 

 othy hay, oats straw, 

 or com stover. Horses 

 will maintain flesh bet- 

 ter on alfalfa than on 

 timothy hay. Late-cut 

 alfalfa hay is preferable 

 for horses. 



Mammoth clover hay 

 has about the same 

 chemical composition as 

 red clover hay. It is 

 coarser and, conse- 

 quently, less valuable as 

 a feed. It will grow 

 under more adverse con- 

 ditions than red clover. 

 It is several weeks later than red clover and yields but one 

 cutting in a season. It is often grown with timothy as it 

 is ready for cutting at about the same time as timothy. As 



Fig. 55. — Alsike clover. (Livingston, Field 

 Crop Production.) 



