| Show beef herds maintained during severe weather beef herds may be best maintained during the winter with a legume hay in the ration liberal use of alfalfa hay accord according ln to practical feeders helps insure a healthy calf crop experimentally peri mentally the alie fal fac has been proven that steers carried through the winter on alfalfa hay make faster gains than non alfalfa fed steers th the e following an experimental year on pasture trial comparing prairie hay with alfalfa showed that the prairie hay gains were but one half as large as alif the alfalfa gains |