POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



should always be cooked or soaked for poultry. When 

 cooked it is very palatable and much relished by fowls. It 

 is quite high in protein as are all the other legumes and 

 should be fed with carbonaceous feeds such as corn. 



PEANUTS AND PEANUT MEAL 



The peanut is gradually becoming a crop of consider- 

 able importance in the southeastern part of the United 

 States where it is used largely in the manufacture of oil 

 and of peanut meal or peanut cake. The plant is often 

 used as a hog feed by allowing the hogs to harvest both 

 the peanuts and the plants in the field. If fed to hogs in 

 too large quantities it will produce soft pork. While this is 

 a comparatively new industry a considerable amount of 

 peanut meal is now being produced, of which some is used 

 for stock and poultry feeding. This meal is also being used 

 with considerable success in the commercial fattening of 

 poultry, for which purpose it has been only recently tried. 



Peanut meal from hulled peanuts contains over 47 per 

 cent crude protein which is higher in crude protein than 

 cottonseed meal. Peanut meal made from unhulled nuts, 

 or meal which has been adulterated by the addition of 

 peanut hulls, is lower in crude protein and much higher 

 in fiber than peanut meal without hulls, the analysis de- 

 pending on the amount of hulls included. The addition of 

 hulls greatly decreases the feeding value of the meal so 

 that some grades of peanut meal contain as low as 28 per 

 cent crude protein and as much as 23 per cent fibre. A 

 small per cent of peanut meal is used quite extensively in 



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