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Published online 1 July 1963
Published in Agron J 55:319-321 (1963)
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Evaluating the Effects of Cutting Date on Yield and Nutritive Value of Alfalfa with Rabbit Feeding Trials and Chemical Analysis1

W. J. Moline and W. F. Wedin2

Synopsis: Yield reductions from early harvest of first-cutting alfalfa generally were compensated for by increased yields of dry matter of the second cutting. The decrease in percent crude protein and increase in percent crude fiber with advanced maturity of alfalfa were more pronounced in first cutting forage than in the second cutting. Feeding trials with rabbits effectively demonstrated a decrease in the nutritive value of alfalfa with increase in maturity of the first cutting.

1 Paper No. 4883, Scientific Journal Series, Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, St. Paul, Minnesota. Part of a thesis submitted to the University of Minnesota in partial fulfillment of requirements for the M.S. degree. Research in cooperation with the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, and the Crops Research Division, ARS, USDA.

2 Formerly research assistant, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, and research agronomist, Crops Research Division, ARS, USDA. Present address of authors: Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University.

Received for publication October 22, 1962.




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