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clover, and what is good treatment for one instance 
is for the other. 
Alfalfa Dangerous After Frost.—There is a time 
when succulent alfalfa may be frosted and afterward 
become very indigestible and dangerous to pasture 
off green; in fact, not the best food when made into 
hay. It is therefore a safe rule to take all stock off 
the alfalfa pastures after a hard frost at once and 
for the rest of the year. It is well to leave a growth 
of twelve inches to catch the snow and protect the 
crown and the greatly increased yield the next year 
will much more than offset the small loss from not 
eating every bit of the crop in the fall. 
Mixing Grasses With Alfalfa—Reference has 
previously been made to the value of grass mixed 
with alfalfa pasture when it is to be grazed, and in 
my experience certain alfalfa fields that have in them 
considerable bluegrass and brome grass have never 
given one case of bloated stock. Alfalfa sown thinly 
is also much less apt to bloat stock. 
Grazing Spring Lambs on Alfalfa—I have for 
some years made a practice of growing winter 
lambs. All the ewes would not yean early enough 
to get their lambs off on the early markets, so those 
born in March and April would be left to go to pas- 
ture. It has been my practice to put these ewes 
and their lambs on alfalfa pasture about the first of 
May, some years a few days later, and feed the 
lambs ear corn in creeps. These lambs have made 
astonishing growth thus treated, averaging above 
