360 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 
bodies could not grow, they could only fatten. There 
was not enough protein in the corn to build their 
frames right. To feed them more carbohydrates 
or fat-making material without first building their 
frames was sheer waste. There is wealth of ma- 
terial in the form of carbohydrates or fat-making, 
heat-making elements. What nearly all farms and 
feedlots are short of is the element of protein. 
With it in abundant supply all goes well. Pregnant 
animals deliver strong young, thev have plenty of 
milk, the young grow off fast and thrifty, good form 
is soon grown, abundant life and spirits are seen in 
the animals, fat is laid on well, the health of the 
animals is good and if the fortunate owner does not 
make money it is because of some other factor of 
trouble entering not chargeable to the feed elements. 
Bread from Alfalfa Meal—I have already told 
how once when a boy I chewed alfalfa hay and found 
it good. It was my first hint as to the richness 
of alfalfa as a feed. I have no idea that in my day 
men will make bread of it, yet the experiments of 
some Nebraska college boys is interesting, and I here- 
with present them, as related in a daily paper: 
When Nebuchadnezzar went out in the fields many thousands 
of years ago and ate the grass like an ox the people of those 
ancient days regarded him as insane. But like many other great 
men the Babylonian King was ahead of his time, for were he 
living in Omaha today he would be hailed with joy by the 
members of the Creighton Alfalfa Club. The young men of this 
organization are eating hay and getting fat on it. 
Farm experts have proved that alfalfa contains several times 
as much nutriment as clover, and is the best forage for cattle. 
That it was also a food for man was never realized until ex: 
