SOY BEANS AS FOOD 



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ing purposes. As the soy bean is an annual, a hay crop, 

 superior to clover in feeding value, may be obtained in a 

 single season. When drought occurs early in the spring 

 and some other crop is ruined, soy beans may be planted as 

 a catch crop, thus securing a good yield of hay or grain. 



Soy Beans as a Protein Food. --The following table 

 shows the relative amount of digestible nutrients in soy 

 beans and in other common concentrated feeds. They 

 rank closely with cottonseed meal and linseed meal and 

 contain more than twice as much crude protein as wheat 

 bran. 



AVERAGE DIGESTIBLE NUTRIENTS IN SOY BEANS AND 

 OTHER CONCENTRATES 



The results of feeding trials at several experiment stations 

 show the value of soy beans for various classes of animals. 

 Being rich in crude protein they should never be fed alone 

 but used with feeds, like corn, oats, and barley, which are 

 much lower in crude protein. 



Soy Beans for Hay. The soy bean makes valuable hay- 

 when properly cured, and all farm animals eat it with great 



