Alfalfa in Beef-Making 



The cattle feeder is not much given to sentiment and 

 cares less for the beauty of the purple flowers of the alfalfa 

 than he does for the best method of converting those 

 purple flowers and their accompanying foliage into mar- 

 ketable beef. An accepted but unwritten rule of corn- 

 feeding is that I GOO pounds of grain with ordinary forage 

 will produce lOO pounds of gain, under normal con- 

 ditions, 



SOME ITEEBIKG TESTS. 



The Kansas station in a careful feeding test of 153 

 days produced 100 pounds of gain with 718 pounds of 

 grain by using alfalfa hay for roughness. This test also 

 gave the following table of gain in values, from the use 

 of different feeds in the same given time : 



Com and alfalfa hay $109.74 



Corn and prairie hay 56.96 



Corn and sorghum hay. , 27.09 



Corn and oat straw 43-28 



Barley and alfalfa hay 57.16 



The Utah station after a feeding test published the 

 statement that to produce 705.61 pounds of beef it re- 

 quired : 



