8 
GRAINS, GRASSES AND VEGETABLES. 
hay, its value may be seen in the experiment made last 
vear. Four steers were fed one month on it and one on 
red clover. They consumed each from 133 to 221 
pounds more clover hay per month than alfalfa, and in no 
case was the per cent, of gain less in the alfalfa months, 
but considerably more. This fact may be clearly seen 
in the feeding experiment illustrated in the following 
table. Three steers were fed 4 months on alfalfa, clover, 
chop and roots. They consumed in 
Oct. and Dec. Nov. and Jan. 
2805 lbs alfalfa) n . 3858 lbs clover) n . 
558 “ chop fe 675 “ chop ' Gam > 
1275 “ roots) 1830 u roots 
l 
240 lbs 
Each steer is credited the same amount of chop and 
roots inasmuch as they were given in limited quantities, 
but of the hay each had all he would eat. Taking, then, 
the hay as a base, the alfalfa made a difference in gain of 
20 pounds and 1053 pounds less of it was fed, showing 
clearly its superior value for a feeding plant. As 
a fertilizer it has no superior, if reports from those who 
have tested it are true. It not only can be turned under, 
as red clover is turned, but in the operation it enriches 
the soil and at the same time is not itself at all impov¬ 
erished but greatly benefited, even so far as to make a 
good crop itself the same year of hay and sometimes of 
seed. 
RED CLOVER. 
This year red clover on the same ground made two 
crops of seed, and that without water. Last year the 
first crop was saved for seed, being cut in July. It 
threshed out a few pounds more than five bushels per 
acre, and in October a crop of two tons per acre of hay 
was taken off*. This year in July again, the first crop 
was saved for seed as was the second crop, cut in October. 
Both were threshed, the first crop making four bushels 
per acre and the second a few pounds over one; the 
two making only a few pounds more than the sin¬ 
gle crop of last year. The seed of the first crop weighed 
