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pounds of green hay, this experiment would show that such an 

 acre of alfalfa, cut green and fed fresh, would produce some- 

 thing like 2000 pounds of pork. Of course, this is fed in 

 connection with corn, and a statement that an acre of green 

 alfalfa would produce 2000 pounds of pork would be very mis- 

 leading. Figuring on the ba'sis of these two experiments, 

 alfalfa hay, yielding four tons per acre (8000 pounds), would 

 produce 1600 pounds of pork, and its value at 4 cents per 

 pound would be something like $64.00 per acre; and green 

 alfalfa producing ten tons per acre (20,000 pounds) would 



Fig. 44. — Alfalfa is good both tor soiling and for hay for swine. 



produce 2000 pounds of pork, which, at 4 cents per pound, 

 would be worth $80.00 per acre." 



Kansas and Wyoming Trials. — The Kansas results from 

 feeding alfalfa are about the most favorable of which the 

 writer is aware. Very fair results were obtained at the 

 Wyoming Experiment Station, where alfalfa hay and wheat 

 were fed against wheat alone. In this experiment it required 

 449 pounds of wheat for 100 pounds of gain where wheat was 

 fed alone; and 319.3 pounds of wheat and 291.3 pounds of 

 alfalfa for 100 pounds of gain where wheat and alfalfa hay 

 were fed. On this basis, a ton of alfalfa hay would give 



