MAKING ALFALFA MEAL. 
Within recent years a considerable business has 
sprung up in the West of making alfalfa meal. 
Several plans are adopted for making this meal. 
The hay must first be carefully selected. Only well 
cured bright green ‘hay is available. With some pro- 
cesses this must afterward be kiln-dried before it is 
put in the mill. It is then ground to a fine powder. 
Another machine makes meal of the dry hay without 
kiln drying. This meal is not so fine a powder as 
the first mentioned. <A third type simply cuts the 
alfalfa exceedingly fine with a modification of an 
ordinary hay-cutter. This is the most rapid in oper- 
ation of any machine and the resultant product 
seems to be as digestible as any. It is not exactly 
meal, however, and is often sold baled, a lock of 
alfalfa hay being placed at each end of the bale. 
This seems the most practicable way of handling it 
for dairy feed. The fine ground meal, however, may 
sell more readily in the market, though it is doubt- 
ful if it is any better as a feed. 
Meal and Bran.—Prof. H. M. Cotterell says that 
in one test where alfalfa meal was fed in compari- 
son with wheat bran, giving the same weights, the 
alfalfa meal made 141 lbs. of milk, the wheat bran 
100 Ibs. The Pennsylvania experiment station on 
the other hand reported that alfalfa meal gave no 
better results than wheat bran, vet with alfalfa meal 
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