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It has been recommended in some instances to feed 

 speltz with oats. The mixture may frequently be obtained 

 by growing the two together. The advantage in so doing 

 may prove very decided. Usually by growing them thus, 

 the yield will be increased and on lands where oats are 

 much liable to lodge, the speltz will aid in sustaining them. 



Field beans. The common field bean is somewhat ex- 

 tensively grown in certain sections of the northern states 

 and in various provinces of Canada. It is grown primarily 

 as food for man, hence, unless the beans have taken injury 

 during the harvesting from adverse weather or subse- 

 quently from heating in storage, they are too valuable to 

 permit of their being fed to live stock. However, since they 

 stain readily from rain during the harvesting and curing 

 process, and since the injury thus sustained greatly depre- 

 ciates the market value, the most profitable use that can be 

 made of such beans usually is to feed them to live stock. To 

 sheep and horses they are more commonly fed unground 

 but are ground for cattle and are usually cooked for swine 

 and poultry. 



To cattle of any kind in this country they have 

 been so little fed that testimony based on experience 

 in feeding them is almost entirely wanting. The nutrients 

 which they contain give them a high feeding value for pro- 

 ducing growth and also milk. But bean meal like pea meal, 

 will be improved for feeding by adding bran to lessen its 

 density when moistened by saliva. It may also be necessary 

 sometimes to introduce the meal gradually to make cattle 

 take kindly to it. With corn meal and ground oats or bran 

 in the proportions of two, one and two parts respectively, 

 it should make a good concentrated food for calves. For 

 beef cattle the mixture may be bran or ground oats and corn 

 in the proportions of one, one and three parts by weight. 

 For cows in milk, with ordinary fodders, bran meal may 

 form as much as 33 to 50 per cent of the ration. Equal 

 parts of ground beans, ground oats and ground corn, by 

 weight, should make a very suitable grain ration. 



