HAY FOR SHEEP FEEDING. 
Ewes in winter time need little else than alfalfa 
hay to maintain them in splendid condition for 
dropping a crop of strong lambs. Thus treated they 
will come in with plenty of milk. There is usually 
little danger of their consuming too much alfalfa 
hay after being safe in lamb. It is well, however, to 
feed some other food, not so rich, in connection with 
the alfalfa hay. 
To give a run to blue grass or other pasture, and 
a little of some other sort of hay, if the ewes will 
eat it, or to give bright corn stover in connection 
with good alfalfa hay, is good practice. Sometimes 
ewes may be better off for a trifle of grain when 
they are eating alfalfa hay. If they are all right, 
in good health and condition when winter sets in 
and are afterward liberally fed with alfalfa no grain 
will be needed, and in truth it may be a detriment. 
Feeding Value of Hay—lIllustrative of the fact 
that alfalfa alone is a rich enough feed we present 
the following table from the Kansas experiment sta- 
tion, giving some comparative values of alfalfa and 
other well known feed stuffs. The figures are for 
the digestible matter found in the various feeds. 
These figures were gotten from the results of feed- 
ing experiments at that station: 
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