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Show ALFALFA FOR-HORSES. '. -There scemato be an almost iunl-Vefsal iunl-Vefsal opinion among horsemen, and especially "among those" that" arc raising rais-ing heavy horses, that no other grass or combination of grasses equals of cyen approaches the value of alfalfa as a pasture for horses; and from an economical point of view it certainly has no equal, as it will furnish ,.so much more feed an acre than any other oth-er grass. It will not only pasture more horses an acre, but it will .produce .pro-duce horses of greater weight, larger"" bones and stronger muscles. u horse that has- been reared in an faTfalfa, pasture -and fed a light ration of alfalfa all winter makes one of the .finest horses to be found in any mar-, kct today. To produce a horse of the highest type with the cleanest bone, the foest-dcvclopcdmusclc, the best temperament and the greatest action and finish, nitrogcnoujlHlflBflB no otmiH .,.ino$t .essential clement of juH so cheaply and so abundantly sBH as it can by feeding alfalfa. H The .most successful producers of both heavy and light horses arc to4ay using alfalfa extensively in the xfcvcl-opment xfcvcl-opment of their young horses. Jts value for this purpose is not recognized recog-nized by the Kansas "fe'e'der albnc, for after seeing. Kansas 'alfalfa-grown horses, "Eastern breeders,' where -alfalfa caniiot be grown, arcsending their colts to Kansas alfalfa .fields-" to be developed as they could not be at borne, , - , " ' A majority of horse owncrsWre inclined in-clined to waste hay in feeding horses that iSf.they feed more than is necessary ne-cessary forvthc maintenance of the horse and more thanhe'ean economically economic-ally take care of. This is true of other oth-er kinds of hay as well as- of alfalfa. Either heavy or light horses tliat arc doing regular, steady work should not, if one -wishes to feed economically, economical-ly, have more than one pound of hay per hundred pounds of live weight. ' That is, a. thousand-pound horse should, receive' ten pounds of hay a day and'a fiftecn-hundre'd-pQurid Horse fifteen pound's a day. , A fiftecn-huridred-pound hoVse that is doing steady -work should have about four pounds of hay with his morning feed, the -samfe. anftunt at nigfit. Many horses win 1 $ thirty or'fwly- ptnrada of lay tly if they ratf' fo Tt Tf jh'hxrrw is p y - allowed to cat such quantities, half 1 of it is wasted, and if he is eating that I amount'of alfalfa hay, it is worse than I wastcd,for it docs the horse an in- jury. From two to two and one-half ., pounds of-digestible protein is all that , .' an 'ordinary horse can utilize in a day, ' and .in one hundred pounds of alfalfa ( there taric eleven pounds of digestible protein. This fare of alfalfa if too heavy fed is likely to cause kidney disorder, and may even be responsible for&abprtion in pregnant marcs that arc 'fed too liberal a ration of it. If it doc$ noh cause 'abortion, wcak un- hcaltfiy foals will be the result. ! Have alfalfa fed judiciously to prcg- 'n't marcs,Rhcavy or light work horses and it is beneficial and should be used ,- wjicrcver it is obtainable, and it should never be used as the exclusive roughage. rough-age. Some objection is made to it on account of causing looscneyggttBHBB andmgWlbijpJB |