418 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 
and wheat bran rated at equal costs the meal made 
slightly the cheaper milk. 
Difference in samples might readily account for 
this difference. Much meal is doubtless made of 
very coarse, woody hay, cut when over ripe. This 
would naturally make less milk than meal from early 
eut hay. I believe alfalfa meal to be a good product, 
but do not think it ought to be rated above wheat 
bran in feeding value or selling price. 
Easy of Transportation—Probably the chief good 
of alfalfa meal is to carry alfalfa to towns and cities 
and regions where alfalfa is not grown. There re- 
mains to be discovered evidence that it would pay 
the farmer to grind his own alfalfa into meal for 
use on his own farm, unless it might possibly be for 
pig feeding in winter time, and even there the evi- 
dence is in favor of using the alfalfa in its natural 
form or cut very fine. 
Alfalmo is a product of alfalfa meal and mo- 
lasses. One who has observed the very great use of 
molasses feeds in England must conclude that there 
is a field for them in America, and that this alfalmo, 
if honestly made, as it seems now to be, has a future 
before it as a fattening ration for cattle and horses, 
perhaps for pigs as part of the ration. Should we 
be able to introduce alfalfa meal into England there 
would be opened a wide field and a great market. 
Perhaps we will need all our alfalfa hay at home for 
some years; perhaps such a market would in the 
long run rebound to our injury. 
