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Show Beef Herd3 Maintained During Severe Weather Beef herds may be best maintained main-tained during the winter with a legume hay in the ration. Liberal use of alfalfa hay, according to practical feeders, helps insure a healthy calf crop. Experimentally the fact has been proven that steers carried through the winter on alfalfa al-falfa hay make faster gains than non-alfalfa- fed steers the following follow-ing year on pasture. An experimental experi-mental trial comparing prairie bay with . alfalfa showed that the prairie hay gains were but one-half as large as the gains made by feeding feed-ing alfalfa. |