Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-28

counties away from the range, tho men
have found @ profitable Co buy these
rcedcre ship them to the alfalfa feeding
grounds and there finish them or into
prime beef
Following the picture around to the
loft. an idea IS secured OF what "a done
In tho way 81 handling the range cattle
shipped from tho range they are soon
landed IN the feed lots, where they rap
| idly. take on flesh after tho alfalfa diet
or tho mixed ration Is given. In few
weeks they are In prime condition and
ready for any market IN the world
But making beef is not the only pur-
pose FOR which alfalfa IL designed. At
the left hand corner Ia Elven an idea Of
It's value In carrying on the dairy indus
try Here II a model dairy. with cool
| ms rooms, stontlous and all the best APP
/ planes used In the business, for Il has
become business, Here is seen the silo,
whcrc the alfalfa mixed with less valu-
able milk producing plants is cut. shred
dcd ana put In pickle, as It is called, and
/ then fed.
Hogs Thrive on Alfalfa.
! Moving along little, the visitor is
/ taken to a lot whore the alfalfa has been
/ fed down by hogs and the animals turned
/ into another field, where the forage plant
| is so high that Il almost hides the swine
from view. The field from which they
/ have been driven, soon reiuvenatcs and
In a short time Is ready for grazing a
second and as many as a dozen times
during a season
ON this side Of the picture, the idea
OF an immense farm IS given. all fenced
.
| from twenty TO forty acres and In the LOT
/ Just beyond that I'm which the hogs are
feeding Is one Of the small ones In which
the poultry OF the farmer is at homo.
Beyond is the model farm house, wher,
the happy and prosperous alfalfa CROWNS
farmer resides.
TO the left OF the farm house an army
OF farm hands are seen harvesting tn,
alfalfa. The cover over the first stacl
bears this. 1900 100000 acres In tn,
United Statcs-wcnt begging at 81 pc
ton" \ little further on Is secon,
stack, larger than tho first and on tn,
cover Is the following. 1905, approx
matoly 100000 acres IA the United state
So per ton" The next stack tells VIVA
Is In store FOR alfalfa, FOR upon It Is this
1910 approximately 100000 acres an,
the average price 50 per ton"
Industry's Growth shown.
Much of this wonderful plant IL grow
in what until few years ago was tn
range country.
The foregoing Is the picture Of tn
range, the mountains and the prosperou
farmer with his hords and his broa
acres, But there is still another picture
"a panorama twenty-one feet long an
four feet high. on the right Is a pictur
OF the high mountains, timber creepin
up to the snow-cuverod peaks.
"AIrRlfavilIc" ~ Seen,
on the opposite sldo of tho painting
where alfalfa is featured, the mountain
are not SO steep and rugged, runnin
down in gentle rolling foothills, blendln
into the level and rich agricultural Liant
Up in tho valleys OF these foothills nj
seen the humble homes of the settler
while a little nearer in the foregrour
! is the city of "Alfalfaville," with 1
stores. business houses, homes, elevator
and great plants where the alfalfa
converted into meal, which finds mark
all over the world.
= Around this central painting n doubl
A track railroad has been constructed Tv
I Northwestern trains, one a passenger al
g ono u freight, laden with alfalfa and