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do not grind it for nothing and put it up in bags. That question 

 of growing alfalfa might be discussed here if you have the time 

 and wish to do so. 



Mr. Gregg: — I did not want to discount the value of feeding 

 but the point I tried to make was that it was very difficult to 

 feed quality into an animal. First breed then feed, and your 

 feeding system is the same as we follow at home. 



Mr. Long : — This question of raising alfalfa, it seems to me, 

 is an important one and if we have time I think it would be well 

 to take it up for a while. I would like to ask where Mr. Gil- 

 kerson got his alfalfa? 



Prof. Hayden: — In this case we shipped the alfalfa to Mr. 

 Gilkerson for the purpose. It was not raised here, we shipped 

 it in and fed it against good timothy hay. 



Q. — What was the amount of protein you fed those cows? 



Prof. Hayden : — I cannot give you that without figuring it 

 out, and I did not do that here. I figured it at home but cannot 

 remember what it was. The difference in protein would be the 

 difference between timothy and alfalfa hay. 



Mr. Campbell : — What does alfalfa hay cost laid down here? 



Prof. Hayden: — Last year it cost us $19.50 per ton laid 

 down here. 



Mr. Campbell: — Can the ordinary dairyman buy it at that 

 price ? 



Mr. Hayden : — I am not advocating that you buy alfalfa, 

 that is not the point I want to make. You can raise clover hay 

 if you cannot raise alfalfa. 



IVLr. Campbell : — We can raise alfalfa here as well as it can 

 be raised in any other country. 



Prof. Hayden: — Mr. Boyce down here has been raising 

 alfalfa on his place for fifteen years. If that will grow there 

 why cannot you grow it? 



Member : — I saw some alfalfa in the North end of the coun- 

 ty, if some one here can tell us about that. 



Prof. Hayden : — Can anyone who has grown any say some- 

 thing about it? 



Member : — I have grown it two years successfully. 



Mr. Campbell : — I have raised it successfully but do not 

 happen to live in this county. I live over the line in another 

 county. 



