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To grow the hay for the barn feeding period would re- 

 quire for the herd fed alfalfa hay .31 of an acre of land per 

 cow or 71/4 acres for a herd of 25 cows. But to produce the 

 hay for 850 cows fed clover and timothy, would require .57 

 of an acre of land per cow or 485 acres — over 62 times as 

 much land in hay. 



A man with the small herd would have to grow only 

 7% acres of alfalfa while the man with the large herd must 

 raise 485 acres of clover and timothy. The latter man 

 would certainly have some large job of haying, many, many 

 times more than would the man with the 25 cows. The 

 question of taking the extra time and pains necessary to 

 cure the 714 acres of alfalfa to make a high quality hay by 

 putting in cocks under caps and thus preserve its leaves and 

 keep it from bleaching pales into insignificance by the side 

 of the other job of haying. 



To grow the entire feed for the barn feeding period 

 would need for the alfalfa fed herd only .97 of an acre per 

 cow or 241/2 acres for the herd of 25 cows. But to produce 

 the feed for the same length of time for the clover and tim- 

 othy fed herd would require^ 1.23; acres of crops per cow or 

 1,045 acres for the 850 cows. Thus 43 times as much land 

 would have to be farmed to produce the winter ration alone, 

 saying nothing of the increased amount of barn room, equip- 

 ment and labor that would be needed. 



The graphical illustration shows the respective num- 

 bers of good cows of exactly the same efficiency a man 

 would have to keep to make the same amount of profit for 

 the winter period, $531, according to whether he grew 7l^ 

 acres of alfalfa or 485 acres of clover and timothy to bal- 

 ance the corn ration 



Sweet Clover Supreme. 



Is there an efficient pasture crop that will give the ad- 

 vantage to the summer ration that alfalfa hay gives to the 

 winter ration? Fortunately we have exactly that kind of 

 crop in sweet clover, as rich in protein as alfalfa, as high 

 in yield, much cheaper to produce than alfalfa hay, and that 

 will furnish entirely suitable cow pasture for a much longer 



