Arizona republican., 1913-04-14
ALFALFA MILL
 REACHING OUT
Made in Arizona Feed for Poultry, Horses and Cat tie Gaining in Popularity as It Is Better Known to Consumers

Between the Santa Fe and Southern
 Pacific tracks on Fourteenth and Eff
 teenth avenues the Arizona Alfalfa
 mill is again starting up the business
 destroyed two years ago by fire in
 a building that is this time as near
 fire proof as it is possible for a
 building of that kind to be. and be-
 fore this month has elapsed it is ex-
 pected that the mill will be running
 al It's full capacity of fifty tons per
 day. Already the mill has been put
 into use and has succeeded in mal-
 Ing up and selling a large amount
 of the cattle and chicken feed pro-
 ducts of the mill to good advantage
 and already their is an increasing
 demand for the feed not only all
 over the state but in other sections
 as well.
 The alfalfa mill is aimed to produce
 for cattle, hogs, horses and chickens.
 Iced Tn the same sort of condensed
 and tabloid form almost, as the pres
 ent system of carrying cooked rations
 IS provided in the armies of the
 world. It is d concentrated food, not
 to the great extent that the well
 known soldiers emergency ration but
 to much greater degree than can be
 reached by largely used method of
 baling alfalfa and feeding it that way. It is a well known fact that there IS always a loss of leaves and sustaining matter in feeding baled al falfa, but in the milled feed there is practically no waste at all
 Every particle of food stuffs that enters into the product of the Ari- zona Alfalfa mill is obtained in Ari- l zona Alfalfa is obtained from the stack without baling, barley, wheat, oats corn, and milo maize as well as other varieties of the Asiatic and African grains grow here to immense | tonnage. All these are used in man. ufacturing the feed Molasses now | being used largely in the sugar beet | districts of California and the cane l districts of the south is food pro l duct for animals that needs but little recommendation. This is obtained | from the sugar beet factory a Glen 1 dale. In the chicken and poultry feed much ground bone is used. This is | obtained from the cattle districts and ! slaughter houses of the Salt River l Valley. These feeds as prepared by | the Arizona Alfalfa mill contain a greater degree of nutriment than does | any single one of the ingredients by l itself It is scientifically mixed by machinery especially installed fol | that purpose much better and cheap l CT than it can be done by either the 1 farmer or the feeder
 The alfalfa mill is quite an inter esting proposition to the layman who l visits the institution. He is first l struck by the immense stacks of al l falfa all under corrugated iron roof L ing. This alfalfa is now unloaded as | it is brought loose to the mill by the 1 farmer by a rope brake, but shortly l a travelling crane will be installed SC | that the whole Wagonload can be l lifted and placed with one movement 1 Alfalfa is carried into the mill pro- l per by travellers. and by other travel l CTS to the grinders MOlasses is let l into the mill directly from the cal l by a pipe It is mixed with the l ground alfalfa by steam pressure al l a certain temperature. Grains are l placed ground or rolled partly steam | ed in the mixture by still another l process of travellers and hOpperS and 1 finally the finished product comes out through hopper into the sacks | and is shipped away in carload lots 1 The difference in the various feeds i is made according to the class thar IS wanted, different proportions of the | different materials.
 Under the recent generous rulings | of the Interstate Commerce CommlS | sion the prepared food made from | Arizona grown materials will be able | to compete upon an even basis with ] the mills in California in many Cali | fornia points. The rates in Arizona are such as to give the mill the con | troI of that market, and even now | Manager c D. Young, the secretary of ] the concern is reaching down into ] Texas for further market. The out | look is exceedingly bright. The mill l provides an easy market for the farm | produce with a minimum of handling | right here in Phoenix. and then seeks | the market for the completed product 1 in the Arizona mining camps and l feeding centers. The actual food cost of using this feed is less than 1 the ordinary feed. and the results are | much better than by the old system
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