DESCRIPTION OF FEED STUFFS 



of this country, especially in the States of Washington 

 and Oregon. Peas, including the Canada field pea, are all 

 legumes and tend to enrich the soil by taking nitrogen 

 from the air and adding it to the soil. 



USE OF PEAS IN PIGEON FEEDS 



Pigeons kept confined for squab production are fed en- 

 tirely on seeds; and no ground grains, meat or animal 

 feeds, or green feeds are fed. Pigeons apparently find, in 

 a ration of peas combined with a few of the more com- 

 mon grains, all of the necessary elements for a well- 

 balanced feed. As all of the other grains used for pigeons 

 are also commonly fed to poultry it appears that the peas 

 in the pigeon ration furnish the essential ingredients sup- 

 plied to the fowls from meat scrap and green feed, as 

 fowls fed without these two products or substitutes do 

 not give satisfactory results. The price of Canada peas 

 or field peas is very much higher than that of the cereals 

 used for feeding fowls and the same food value, especially 

 the large amount of protein, can be secured in the fowls' 

 ration in cheaper forms from other sources than from 

 Canada peas. The several kinds of ordinary garden peas 

 are similar in analysis to the Canada pea but are not usu- 

 ally available at sufficiently low prices to be used either for 

 feeding pigeons or fowls. Occasionally poorer grades of 

 such feeds are available at reasonable prices for such feed- 

 ing. Garden peas will successfully replace Canada peas for 

 feeding pigeons although they are not so well liked by the 



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