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or balanced ration in themselves. Several years' experi- 

 ence in supplying the university dairy herd with various 

 kinds of soiling crops in midsummer has led to this high 

 recommendation of corn silage and alfalfa/' 



Alfalfa hay has much the same laxative effect as June 

 pasture. An Elgin, III, dairyman, with fifty cows, says : 

 "Every month I feed alfalfa in winter gives me a month 

 in which I have practically pasture conditions. The cows 

 show the pasture-effect in the glossy condition of their 

 hair and in the yield of milk, and have never before looked 

 quite so well/' 



