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The Effect of Alfalfa Hay on Milk Flavor

Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station, Stillwater, Oklahoma

ABSTRACT

Many workers have called attention to the fact that the feed a cow receives may have a pronounced effect on the flavor of the milk. Particular attention has been directed toward the dangers in using the succulent feeds. Peculiarly enough the injury to milk flavor that is caused by alfalfa hay seems in many cases to have escaped notice. Some investigators, in ascertaining the effects of various succulent feeds on milk flavor, have even used alfalfa hay in the check rations apparently in the belief the hay exerted no effect. On the other hand, Roadhouse, Regan and Mead (1), in 1926, recognized that alfalfa hay exerted an effect on milk flavor. They mentioned its effect was less pronounced than when the alfalfa was used as pasture or silage. Also Lucas (2), in 1929, said, "Alfalfa hay gives to milk a rather pronounced flavor but it is objected to by only a very few people. "