ALFALFA FOR DAIRY GOWS. 
Here is found best of all uses for alfalfa. Dairy 
cows are machines for making milk. Milk is a ma- 
terial requiring large amounts of protein for its 
manufacture. Dairy cows are machines and they 
are somewhat delicate machines. They require 
large amounts of protein, but they thrive better 
when that protein is furnished them in the shape of 
forage than if it is given them in concentrated form. 
One may buy protein; he can get it in cottonseed- 
meal, linseed-meal, gluten meal or other form, and 
by feeding the right amount get the proper nutrients 
in the feed, but that does not at all equal in effect 
the feeding of a ration mixed ‘‘as God mixed it’’— 
that is, a forage such as alfalfa, delicious in flavor, 
rich enough, not too rich, bulky enough, not too 
bulky. 
Stimulating Flow of Milk.—In truth there is no 
artificial blending of foods that will give the results 
that feeding alfalfa will. An illustration of this is 
furnished by the experience of a Pennsylvania 
breeder of Guernsey cattle. This man bought some 
alfalfa hay from Woodland Farm. After using it 
for a few weeks he wrote: 
‘‘Our Guernsey cows are entered in the official test 
for position in the advanced registry. Naturally 
therefore we have been feeding them as well as we 
knew how to feed them. Since they had your al- 
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