-------------------+------------+--------+-------- | Total Yield| Dry | Total |Green Forage| Matter | Protein | per acre |per acre|per acre -------------------+------------+--------+-------- | _Pounds_ |_Pounds_|_Pounds_ Alfalfa | 36,540 | 8,258 | 2,214 Corn (entire plant)| 24,000 | 5,040 | 408 Red clover | 14,000 | 4,088 | 616 Barnyard millet | 16,000 | 4,000 | 384 Crimson clover | 14,000 | 2,674 | 434 Cowpeas | 16,000 | 2,624 | 384 Oats and peas | 14,000 | 2,107 | 363 -------------------+------------+--------+-------- | Dry | Total | Matter | Protein --------------------------------+--------+-------- |_Pounds_|_Pounds_ 1 ton alfalfa hay contains | 1,809 | 265 1 „ red clover hay contains | 1,694 | 246 1 „ oats and peas contains | 1,375 | 175 1 „ timothy contains | 1,736 | 118 1 „ wheat bran contains | 1,762 | 308 1 „ wheat middlings contains | 1,758 | 312 1 „ rye bran contains | 1,768 | 294 1 „ oats contains | 1,780 | 236 1 „ rice meal contains | 1,796 | 240 1 „ buckwheat bran contains | 1,790 | 248 --------------------------------+--------+-------- At the Colorado station (Bul. No. 26) Prof. W. W. Cooke compared an acre of dent (Golden Beauty) corn, planted May 16 and harvested September 21, with returns from an acre of alfalfa on an adjoining plat, three years seeded. The corn crop was a fair one, and including ears and stalks weighed 15,500 pounds, containing 35.62 per cent or 5539 pounds of dry matter. The alfalfa yielded three cuttings of hay weighing respectively 4600, 3350 and 3250 pounds, or 5.6 tons, containing 10,304 pounds of dry matter. But, as Professor Cooke says, this is not quite a fair comparison, for a pound of dry matter from the corn crop is more digestible and has a higher feeding value than an equal amount from the alfalfa. The corn crop contained 3605 pounds of digestible feeding material, while the alfalfa crop contained 5611 pounds, or a little more than half as much again. The corn crop per acre in feeding value was equivalent to three and a half tons of alfalfa hay. The total digestible nutrients of the two crops are presented in the following table: