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per hundred. The oats would then be worth $1.26, or $25.20 

 per ton, for feeding value. If we go to the market today and 

 buy oats, they cost us $40. The serious problem for a man 

 who has a large number of bushels of good, sound oats to con- 

 sider is whether, when they are worth for him only $25 a ton 

 as compared with corn meal and cottonseed meal, he had not 

 better take them to market and bring home something else. I 

 am not altogether sure but that he will make more money if 

 he will take his oats to market and exchange them for some- 

 thing else, if he does not have to cart them too far and can trade 

 them to good advantage. Oats are good feed, but for a man to 

 think of buying them to feed to any animal except a race horse, 

 at present prices, seems to be preposterous. 



Ques. What is the comparative value of oats and shorts or 

 bran ? 



Ans. As expensive as bran is, I do not think it is quite as 

 bad as oats at the present time. 



PEA MEAL. 

 There is another feed which we do not grow in Maine as we 

 used and as we ought to grow it. I want to put in a word 

 for pea meal. It contains 16.8 per cent of protein. See how 

 it comes up in protein ! It also has 51.7 per cent •carbohydrates 

 and .6 per cent fat, equal to 1.3 carbohydrates, which added to 

 51.7 gives 53 per cent in round numbers of equivalent carbo- 

 hydrate material. Figuring that through in the same way, using 

 1.8 cents a pound for the carbohydrates, we find that it is worth 

 $29 a ton to feed, as compared with corn meal at $29 and cotton- 

 seed meal at $32 per ton. And we can grow peas without any 

 difficulty almost anywhere in ]\Iaine unless we happen to get 

 too much warm, muggy weather, which might make them 

 mildew. I think while the raising of peas to be ground has 

 practically gone out of fashion it should be revived. Peas, oats 

 and barley can be grown together and will make a good feed. 

 I believe we ought to grow all the feeding stuff that we possibly 

 can and peas and clover give the most protein of any crop. 



