-----+--------------------------------------------+-----+--------- | | | Yield Plat| | Hay,|per acre, No.| Variety Grown | lbs.| lbs. -----+--------------------------------------------+-----+--------- 1 |June Clover | 473 | 2,365 2 |Mammoth Clover | 475 | 2,375 3 |Alsike Clover | 413 | 2,065 4[1]|Alfalfa (first cutting) 26 inches high, June| | |29th | 816 | 4,080 5 | Blue-grass | 575 | 2,875 6 | Orchard grass | 478 | 2,390 7 | Timothy | 560 | 2,800 8 | Red-top | 470 | 2,350 9 | Meadow fescue | 375 | 1,875 10 | Tall meadow oat grass | 600 | 3,000 11 | Italian rye grass |.... | .... 12[2]| Timothy, blue-grass and orchard grass mixed| 203 | 1,015 -----+--------------------------------------------+-----+--------- [1] The alfalfa plat yielded a second cutting 26 inches high on August 2nd, and a third 24 inches high September 1st; there was also a six-inch after-growth estimated at 180 pounds. The total alfalfa yield was equivalent, “approximately to 6¹⁄₂ tons of good dry forage.” None of the other clovers or grasses gave more than one cutting. [2] Robbed somewhat of both plant food and moisture by an adjacent row of grown cottonwood trees. The Nebraska experiment station has made very careful tests of the comparative yields of various grasses, clovers and mixtures. These were on plats of one-fifth of an acre. The foregoing table shows the yields the second year from planting, which owing to the very dry spring was a quite unfavorable season. COMPARED WITH CORN The Colorado station reports a comparison with corn as follows: ------------------------------------ Yield per acre of Corn and Alfalfa -------------------+-------+-------- | Corn, |Alfalfa, | lbs. | lbs. -------------------+-------+-------- Dry Matter | 3,605 | 5,611 Albuminoids | 296 | 1,198 Starch, Sugar, etc.| 2,186 | 3,114 Fiber | 1,060 | 1,198 Fat | 63 | 101 -------------------+-------+-------- INDIVIDUAL INSTANCES OF CASH RETURNS A Lincoln county, Kansas, farmer writes that from five acres of alfalfa he received in one season $100 for hay, $150 for seed and $20 for straw. A farmer near Atwood, Rawlins county, Kansas, cut two crops for hay and threshed the third crop for seed, realizing 13 bushels per acre, which sold at $5 per bushel.