ALFALFA IN BEEF-MAKING I4I 



"Alfalfa is pronouncedly superior to prairie hay for 

 beef production, and the more rapid the extension of the 

 area of land devoted to the production of alfalfa, sup- 

 planting the less valuable and lower yielding native hay, 

 the more rapid will be the production of wealth from our 

 soil/' 



One authority who has made a study of such problems 

 says, "steers can be fattened on one-third less corn with 

 alfalfa for roughness than without." 



W. H. Jordan, director of the New York (Geneva) 

 experiment station says : "Probably no species of forage 

 are known that are more economical sources of high- 

 class cattle food than alfalfa and corn, and if in the 

 realms of stock raising corn is king, alfalfa is queen/' 



FEEDING TOO JMUCH AliFALFA. 



Many feeders make the mistake of feeding too much 

 alfalfa hay to young steers grained heavily on corn. 

 Careful tests seem to prove that cattle on a heavy feed of 

 corn, corn meal, Kafir-corn or Kafir-corn meal gain as 

 much with 25 or 30 pounds of alfalfa hay per day as by 

 having 50 pounds, the very common quantity in feeding. 

 It is also reported by experienced feeders that steers over 

 three years old may be fattened on alfalfa with a mod- 

 erate feed of corn, while for younger steers the heavy 

 feed should be corn with 15 to 25 pounds of alfalfa hay 

 per day, 



A Colorado feeder put a lot of 'steers nearly four years 

 old on a daily ration of ten pounds of corn chop and 

 fifteen pounds of alfalfa hay for 100 days. The gain 

 was surprising and the steers weighed on the Denver 

 market about 1430 pounds per head. 



