Show TEX TEA FRON ALFALFA LUTES LEAVES cut this out ont ana paste it in your hat for future reference the following from a denver paper laan is an experiment that if tried may tend to fatten the be pocket book of our far nigra IN V ho knows instead of selling bolling your hay bay for 2 and 3 per ton you may got two bits tor for every pound poun a of the leaves from your alfalfa hay bay and bavo ull all of the sterns stems left it is at least of a trial we havo have boon been usia using alfalfa for years as excellence I 1 ju an ammal imal dietary but have never thought of it us as an article of human COU consumption still it hav has great value alue in this thia way and this thia fact is bound to bo be duly appreciated precia procia ted one ot of those days all over colorado and the west major du da bois boia of the du bois breeding farm near denver has haq made the rather startling discovery that as aa a 0 substitute 0 for the finest bianda bianas of japan tea on the table alfalfa loaves properly picked and carel cured no equal and tho imitation is so BO natural that the iott moat inveterate ten tea d drin pinkei Loia a who have sat at lis his hospitable board have not been able to detect it 11 in selecting the clio leaves of fit fo for r tea only the more tender those of the birst growth grouth should be choson chosen thov they should bo be dried for a day or two in the sun in pans or spread on shoots then placed in boxes or can and thua kept until needed it is cooked and served tho the same a 3 stole stoic tea its continuous use proves a great benefit to the human s system stem as it serves asa as a sort nt tonic ionic and corrective aud and will keep ono one in ia a state of splendid health ve ve have been looking up the history and analysis of the tea plant and flud find that in ninny many respects it is not unlike modi cago satin saliva a the alfalfa i or lue lucan rn plant tea has a constituent called theine a sort of narcotic giop pi op orty from which the caffeine caf fuina of commerce is obtain obtained pd and the do not report finding any of it in alfalfa but this may bo be due to the fact that chat aboy have never tested for it in any event it is ii a property that may w well 11 bo expunged from our tea and is i its absence from alfalfa will appeal to some people as anito an advantage to the kathr we are annually sending bonding out 1 to tho oriental tea trado trade 1 ho bo knows but that t tho he alfalfa pl tnt of the west in est may not 3 et be employed in stopping this groat item of |