190 Feeds and Feeding. 



Florida Station^ states that the fat of pigs fed on velvet beans has 

 a dark, dirty appearance and a disagreeable odor and taste, which 

 may be avoided by feeding corn, cassava, etc., with a limited quan- 

 tity of beans. The charge that velvet beans cause abortion among 

 cattle and swine and blind staggers with horses is substantially with- 

 out foundation. If exclusively fed on velvet-bean hay, horses may 

 suffer from kidney trouble, but all danger may be averted by feed- 

 ing equal parts of velvet-bean and crab-grass hay. 



264. Peanut-vine, Araeliis hypogaea. — Newman of the Arkansas 

 Station- reports hay of the peanut vine close in value to that from 

 alfalfa and clover. Hay from the entire peanut plant was found 

 rather superior to a ration composed of ordinary hay and corn as a 

 feed for horses and mules. The yield is from 1 to 3 tons per acre. 

 (557, 900) 



265. Beggar weed, Desmodium tortuosum. — This legume is used 

 both for green forage and for hay production in the sub-tropical 

 regions of our country. Garrison of the South. Carolina Station^ 

 reports a yield of over 11.5 tons of green and 2.25 tons of dry forage 

 from 1 acre. Smith* states that on rich lands yields of from 4 to 

 6 tons of hay are not unusual. 



' Bill. 102. 3 Bui. 123. 



■' Ept. 1905. " * Yearbook, U. S. Dept. Agr., 1897. 



