ALFALFA FOR HORSES. 
The place of alfalfa as a horse feed has not yet 
been settled beyond dispute. Most men who have 
not used it are opposed to its use and bring forward 
very good arguments against it. On the other hand 
in alfalfa-growing countries are found some of the 
best developed and most healthy and useful horses 
in the world. I have seen in the alfalfa pastures of 
California wonderful young horses, weanlings and 
foals, that never ate any other food than their 
mother’s milk and alfalfa, with what little wild 
grass might be mixed through the,field. These colts 
running all summer on the alfalfa meadows and be- 
ing fed alfalfa hay during winter reach a magnificent 
development and are often as large and well finished 
at two years as they would be at three in a land 
where they ate timothy hay instead of alfalfa. 
In France quite a little use of alfalfa is made in 
the horse breeding districts and has been from time 
immemorial. In England always, so far as history 
tells, progressive farmers have grown alfalfa and 
fed it green in summer time. 
Personal Experience.—The writer has had experi- 
ence with seeding alfalfa to horses since 1887. He 
began it on the Utah ranch and has continued it 
on Woodland Farm in Ohio since his return. In 
Utah the horses were most of them used under the 
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