March, 1917.] THE SOY BEAN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



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Variety. 

 Corn 

 Eureka 

 Longfellow 

 Learning 

 Sanford 

 N. H. 500 



Average 



Soy Beans 

 Swan 

 Guelph 



Black Eyebrow 

 Wilson 

 Ito San 



Average 



Table V. 

 Dry Matter per A. 



6,461 

 5,637 

 5,655 

 5,487 

 5,513 



Lbs. Protein per A. 



489 

 463 

 479 

 432 

 453 



4,470 



867 



In general we may conclude that more dry matter can be 

 grown in corn than in soy beans; but that considerably more 

 protein can be grown in soy beans than in corn. It seems 

 reasonable then that many farmers should grow soy beans for 

 silage because at the present time they are forced to buy protein 

 in high priced grains or protein feeds. 



FEEDING VALUE OF SOY BEANS 



The following table* will give some indication as to the feeding 

 value of soy bean silage: 



From these analyses it can be seen that whereas corn silage 

 alone has a very wide nutritive ratio, a mixture of corn and 



' Henry and Morrison, Feeds and Feeding, 1915. 



