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Content and Digestibility of Morning and Evening Cuttings of Alfalfa

Cornell University

Abstract

In the experiment reported no significant difference in dry matter yield was found between alfalfa cut in the evening and that left for cutting the following morning. The evening-cut samples required an average of fourteen additional hours for field-curing. Significant curing losses occurred in the evening-cut alfalfa. The curing losses from morning-cut samples were less and did not reach significance in this investigation.

A digestibility experiment with rabbits shows no pronounced difference between the digestibility of morning and evening cuttings of alfalfa hay. Oven-dried samples of alfalfa showed higher digestibility of carbohydrates but lower digestibility of protein than similar field-cured hay.

¹ Present address, Yenching University, Peiping, China.

² The authors acknowledge the assistance of R. F. Elliott in making the chemical analyses.

³ Departments of Animal Husbandry and Agronomy, Ithaca, New York.

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