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also a little alfalfa meal, and seasoning with salt and pepper as for 

 the table. The hens like this mash made of bean soup, and never 

 hens laid better than these. It was certainly a famous egg food. 

 Recently I received letters from several of our readers asking 

 about feeding beans, and I replied, giving Professor Jaffa's analysis, 

 but I afterwards received a letter asking me for the analysis and 

 the value of "broad Windsor beans," and as there was no analysis 

 of them in the bulletin, I sent some of them to the Agricultural 

 College to have them analyzed. Professor Jaffa not only analyzed 

 them, but also analyzed some "horse beans," as I said that Windsor 

 beans were sometimes called horse beans and were largely fed to 

 horses in some places. The horse beans that he bought were 

 larger than the Windsor beans that I sent him and he found both 

 of them so exceedingly rich in protein, that to be certain there was 

 no mistake, he had the analysis duplicated, done over twice. 



Analysis of Horse Beans 



Per cents 



Water 14.05 



Ash * 2.10 



Protein 25.10 



Fat 1.60 



Fiber 6.63 



Starch, etc 50.52 



Total 100.00 



Analysis of Windsor Beans 



Per cents 



Water 10.98 



Ash - 3.02 



Protein 18.80 



Fat 1.58 



Fiber 6.65 



Starch, etc 58.97 



Total 100.00 



Analysis of Navy Beans 



Per cents 



Water 12.60 



Ash 3.50 



Protein 22.50 



Fat 1.80 



Fiber 4.40 



Starch, etc 55.20 



Total 100.00 



It will be seen by these analyses how rich in protein are the 

 beans, and therefore what a valuable food for fowls. Realizing the 

 value of this, in order to help other of our readers, I wrote to 

 A. A. W. for further information about the beans he had sent me, 

 and received the following reply: 



"The beans are commonly known in England (where they are 

 very popular) as 'broad Windsor beans/ but to the best of my 



