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of the digestible compounds. In case of corn ensilage, 

 every ton of which contains six pounds of fat, 24.^1 

 pounds of protein, and 296.6 pounds of carbohydrates, 

 three tons would furnish sufficient protein for twenty- 

 eight days, fat for forty-five days, and carbohydrates 

 for seventy-one days. Four tons of a mixture com- 

 posed of one ton of alfalfa hay and three tons of ensi- 

 lage, or green fodder corn, would therefore furnish 

 food sufficient for 136 days without any appreciable 

 loss. Alfalfa thus furnishes the fanner a feeding 

 material rich in protein, which can be substituted for 

 such waste produdts as wheat bran, cottonseed-meal, 

 etc., usually bought in order to profitably utilize the 

 excess of carbohydrates. 



' ' There is no way in which more net profit may 

 be secured from an acre of good alfalfa than by pastur- 

 ing young hogs upon it. One acre should sustain ten 

 to fifteen hogs from spring to fall. If they weigh 

 one hundred pounds each wheh put on the alfalfa, they 

 should be able to make another hundred each from it 

 during the season. Ten hundred pounds at five cents 

 is fifty dollars, and there is no expense to be dedudled. 

 Six hundred pounds of pork from an acre of com 

 would be a good yield, and then the expense of culti- 

 vating, and harvesting, and feeding would make a big 

 hole in the net profit. Pork-making from alfalfa is 

 one good road to success." 



ALFALFA VS. CORN 



Prof. W. W. Cooke, of the Colorado Experiment 

 Station at Fort Collins, relates this in his Bulletin 

 No. 26: 



"Throughout the northern half of the Mississippi 



