PEAS AS FORAGE AND SOILING CROPS 59 



ground can be worked in the spring, there will be 

 a soiling crop for the stock early in the season. 

 Succession crops on other plots can be made to 

 carry the stock on through most of the season. If a 

 more general use were made of oats and peas for 

 the summer feeding, there would be a decrease in 

 the expense of producing milk. For late feeding 

 barley and oats instead of oats and peas may prove 

 a better combination. A guide will be to sow bar- 

 ley with the peas after July i, instead of oats. 



A\'^ilson^ gives an interesting report of a trial of 

 feeding four cows with green oat and pea fodder. 

 The breeds were Shorthorn, Holstein. Red Polled, 

 and Jerseys. Previous to the experiment they had 

 been grazing on a good blue grass pasture, and had 

 received four pounds cornmeal daily in addition. 

 The soiling commenced July 21, feeding green oat 

 and pea fodder. From no to 125 pounds were fed 

 per cow daily, together with four pounds cornmeal. 

 Taking the cows from an abundant pasture at this 

 season, keeping them confined in a barn, and feeding 

 them all they would eat of peas and oats resulted 

 in an increased flow of milk from all. Shaw^ de- 

 scribes how peas are grown in the San Luis Valley, 

 Col., at an altitude of 7,000 feet, and used for fatten- 

 ing sheep and lambs. They are allowed to pasture 

 the crop. In his opinion this system of grazing 

 is capable of being extended in the mountain states. 

 Lindse\^ found that cured hay from peas and oats 

 is nearly or quite equal to good rowen. 



Cowpea. — Here is a justly popular plant. The 



*Ia. Exper. Sta., Bui. 23. 



^ U. S. Dept. of Agri., Bui. 224. 



* Mass. Exper. Sta. Rpt. for 1893. 



