Show TIME FOR CUTTING ALFALFA crop should be allowed to grow slightly longer for horses than other live stock by A C ARNY ARNT for all classes of animals except horses alfalfa should be cut for fop hay when the new shoots or stems begin to appear at the crown these are easily seen just as they come up among the old stems at about the beginning of blossoming bloss oming time cutting earlier than this Is not desirable or profitable since the yield will bo be smaller and the hay will be more difficult to cure it should not be a al lowed to get much beyond this sango for two reasons 1 although a somewhat heavier first cutting of hay can be secure secured dby by allowing it to stand longer than the time recommended the hoy hay Is neither its as palatable nor as nutritious 2 leaving the first crop after it la Is at the proper stage to cut delays and reduces the second crop since the new shoots coming from tho the crown are cut off with the first crop when alfalfa Is to be fed to horses it may be allowed to grow slightly longer than when it Is to be fed to cattle but it should never be left until the tha second crop Is injured in cutting the first crop 01 |