Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — Fine Hay For the Sheep. [ARTICLE]

Fine Hay For the Sheep.

Second crop hay, If permitted to get too ripe before It Is cut, becomes unpalatable and woody. For that reason many do not value it for sheep feeding. It must be remembered, however, that first crop hay may get woody too, and that It does not contain such, a vast amount of the especially desirable fine growth as does second crop says Farm, Stock and Home. In an experiment recently conducted, first crop hay was fed against second crop to breeding ewes. About l-10th more of the first crop hay waß fed, and yet this lot made only very small* gain. Those fed on seoond crop made a large gain. The bunch fed first crop hay rejected considerable because It was coarse, which was not true of the other bunch. It waa estimated that the Becond crop was worth about one-fourth .more for sheep feeding.