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Bulletin No. 44 - Alfalfa Or Lucerne, A. A. Mills
Bulletin No. 44 - Alfalfa Or Lucerne, A. A. Mills
UAES Bulletins
This bulletin gives the details of trials with alfalfa for the two years of 1894-5 and 1895-6. It also gives a summary of the results for three seasons. Bulletin 31 of the Station gives the details of the year's work not given here. Attention is also called to the work reported in bulletin 40 of this Station, in regard to feeding grasses, mostly alfalfa, to pigs.
Bulletin No. 31 - Time To Harvest Lucerne. Mulching., J. W. Sanborn
Bulletin No. 31 - Time To Harvest Lucerne. Mulching., J. W. Sanborn
UAES Bulletins
The opinion has prevailed in scientific as well as in practical circles, that hay cut before or during bloom is more valuable, pound for pound, than when cut at a later period, and it is even maintained that the gross product per acre is more valuable. The old assumption, now somewhat modified, that as plants mature a part of the starch and sugar is converted into fibre, and that the nutrition of the stem is moved into the seed, led to the belief that early-cut hay was both more digestible and more valuable than that cut at a later period. …