Following is the digestible nutrients and fertilizing constituents of 

 the cow pea. 



SOY BEANS 



IT has been so thoroughly demonstrated that soy beans are one of our 

 most valuable stock feeds, that we feel the subject should receive 

 more than passing notice. 



A most concise and comprehensive article based upon actual expe- 

 rience appears in the sixteenth edition of "Feeds and Feeding" by 

 Henry and Morrison. With the permission of the authors, I herewith 

 present it: 



"Soy beans are for the most part bushy plants with no tendency to 

 vine, and which, unlike cow peas, die after the crop of pods has been 

 matured. They thrive in the same climate as corn, maturing suffi- 

 ciently for hay in northern sections wherever corn may be grown for 

 silage. Soy beans are better adapted to the northern part of the corn 

 belt than cow peas, which require a longer growing season and are in- 

 jured by slight frosts. They are also more drought-resistant than cow 

 peas, and, hence, well suited to light soils, though they will not thrive on 

 such poor land as do cow peas. The fondness of rabbits for the plant is 

 a serious drawback in the plains district. The soy bean crop should be 

 cut for hay when the pods are well formed, but before the leaves begin to 

 turn yellow, for soon after this the stems become woody and the leaves 

 easily drop off. The crop yields from one to three tons per acre of hay 

 equal to cow pea or alfalfa hay in feeding value. 



"Soy beans alone make rank smelling silage, but one ton of soy beans 

 ensiled with three to four tons of corn or sorghum makes a satisfactory 

 product. For this purpose the soy beans and corn or sorghum may be 

 mixed as ensiled, or they may be grown together. In the South, boy 

 beans alone or soy beans and corn are often grazed by hogs. When de- 

 signed for pasture, the beans should be planted in rows to lessen the loss 

 by tramping, and the hogs should not be turned in until the pods are 

 nearly mature. In the northern states, the chief value of soy beans is 

 for sandy land or as a catch crop when clover or other crops fail. Moore 

 and Delwiche of the Wisconsin Station report that soy beans planted in 



