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could be accredited to each acre of cow-pea forage." The cow- 

 pea forage was supplemented with corn meal to the extent of 

 1/2 to % of a full ration. 



Soy Beans. Two tests were conducted with soy-bean 

 forage. The first test, in 1909, was unsatisfactory, owing to 



r. 



Fio. 45. Cow-peas grown in hot weather in eight or ten weeks. Good for hog pasture. 



a poor stand of soy beans. In 1910 the results were satis- 

 factory. Medium early yellow soy beans were sown June loth 

 at the rate of 1% bushels per acre. The hogs were turned 

 into the crop when the pods were well formed. The crop was 

 pastured at the rate of 12 hogs per acre, and corn meal to 

 the extent of three-fourths of a full ration was fed as a sup- 



