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pocket inside out. It adds a great burden of expense in the 

 endeavor to make up for an unpardonable blunder in wast- 

 ing land and labor to grow timothy hay. The milk pro- 

 duced per acre is reduced tremendously on farms where 

 timothy is grown, because an acre of timothy is worth only 

 about one-tenth as much as an acre of alfalfa to furnish 

 protein to balance corn. It is not economic dairying. If 

 the dairyman is going to buy his protein, he had better go 

 fishing than to grow timothy hay and then he could have his 

 timothy ground for a watermelon patch bigger than his 

 corn field. 



It costs a great deal more to buy the protein than to 

 raise it, but if the dairyman were so liberal and really want- 

 ed to pay an extra $500 or $600 just for the privilege of 

 amusing himself by handling timothy, he still would not 

 get as high milk production as with alfalfa in the ration. 

 In common practice, the dairyman seldom if ever feeds 

 enough purchased protein with timothy hay to take the 

 place of twelve pounds of alfalfa in the ration and the pur- 

 chased feed high in protein does not take the place of al- 

 falfa in supplying the necessary minerals. 



Buying concentrated protein feed for high producing 

 cows is commended in the strongest terms. No greater 

 waste can be made than not to give the proper amount of 

 such feeds to cows capable of producing a good flow of milk, 

 because they cannot get sufficient protein from alfalfa and 

 corn. But these cases offer no excuse for growing timothy 

 and then buying protein concentrate because protein is lack- 

 ing in the home-grown feed. 



Clear Case in Court. 



These are undeniable farts of dairy practice. All the 

 thieves that ever carried property off our farms have not 

 caused a tenth of the damage done by the smooth timothy 

 thief that stays right with us year after year in the guise of 

 friend and helper. The timothy swindle is one of the most 

 gigantic frauds ever perpetrated in dairydom. 



The worthless cow never ''laid down on her job" of 

 making milk as completely and extensively as timothy has 



