CHEMICAL GOMPOSITION. 
Before presenting tables of exact composition 
of alfalfa let us consider its relation in productivity 
of nutrients as compared with other common feed 
stuffs. The following table is from a bulletin of 
the New York Experiment station at Geneva: 
In order to show the high feeding value of the alfalfa from an 
acre, the average product obtained at this station during the 
three years past is stated in the following table in comparison 
with the food supplied by several of our best common fodder 
crops. The average of the five alfalfa crops was 34,104 pounds 
of green fodder, or 8,035 pounds of dry matter, containing 1,411 
pounds of protein, 1,103 pounds of this being albuminoids: 
Yield per acre| Dry matter |Total digestible] Digestible 
of total crop. | peracre. |matterperacre.} protein. 
ATIAUER... Gisinrogiancuntesawen 34,100 1bs. 8,000 lbs. 5,280 lbs. 875 lbs. 
Red clover. : 18,000 lbs. 5,220 lbs. 3,200 lbs. 491 lbs. 
Oats and peas .,... 13,000 lbs. 3,120 lbs. 2,521 lbs. 350 lbs. 
Corn, entire plant. 28,000 lbs. 5,800 lbs. 3,800 lbs. 300 lbs. 
Rutabagas . 31,700 1bs. 3,400 lbs. 3,000 1bs. 279 lbs. 
Mangels.. 25,000 lbs. 3,500 lbs. 2,750 1bs. 232 lbs. 
Timothy . 10,000 1bs. 3,500 Ibs. 2,000 lbs. 228 lbs. 
Sugar beets ............000. 17,800 lbs. 2,500 lbs. 1,800 lbs. 213 1bs. 
The acreage yields of the several crops given above are such 
as have been secured at different places in this part of the coun- 
try from Pennsylvania to Canada. Sometimes considerably 
larger crops have been obtained, but the average crop would be 
less than any mentioned in the table. 
This is indeed a wonderful showing. More car- 
bohydrates than corn and nearly three times as much 
protein! And the crop of alfalfa, once the field is 
established, can be grown and harvested at much 
less expense than the corn, while corn impoverishes 
land on which it grows and alfalfa enriches it. 
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