POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



it is higher in fiber. No reports of this cake having been 

 used for poultry feeding are recorded. 



CANADA FIELD PEA 



The Canada field pea is not fed much to fowls as a seed 

 but is used extensively in feeding pigeons. It contains 

 about twice as much crude protein as corn, wheat, or oats, 

 and is quite high in phosphorus and potash. This seed is 

 preferred above all other feeds for pigeons and is one of 

 the very best feeds to use in producing big squabs. Can- 

 ada peas are a very hard grain which makes them espe- 

 cially desirable for pigeons, but hard grains are not so 

 well liked by poultry. Peas are raised extensively in the 

 Northwest, and waste peas, including those not available 

 for seeds or which have been cracked or otherwise 

 mutilated in handling, are fed somewhat to poultry in that 

 section. The ordinary peas fit for seed or human con- 

 sumption are too high in price to be economical as a 

 poultry feed. 



A very small percentage of Canada or other peas are 

 found included in commercial scratch mixtures to add 

 variety to the feed. Peas are used to some extent to sow 

 with oats as a forage crop in the early spring and make 

 a very desirable early green crop for poultry, either where 

 the poultry are allowed to range on the field or where the 

 crop is cut and fed to the poultry as fodder. This seed 

 does best where the climate is moderately cool and is only 

 raised to any great extent in the extreme northern part 



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