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mixture of these meals in proper proportions would tend to produce a 

 butter of the proper consistency. The value of soy-bean meal for 

 producing meat, milk, and butter is well established. It is one of the 

 cheapest of the highly nitrogenous feeding stuffs and is therefore 

 one of the most economical for balancing rations deficient in nitrogen. 

 Table VII shows the prices per short ton of soy-bean cake in com- 

 parison with other oil cakes which enter largely into the feeding 

 rations of cattle in European countries. 



Table VII.- — Value per short ton of soy-bean cahe and other oil calrs in the principal 



European countries. 



[From U. S. Department of Commerce, Special Agent Series No. 84.] 



Kind of meal. 



Germany. 



United 

 Klingdom. 



Nether- 

 lands. 



Denmark. 



Sweden. 



Cottonseed, American 



Soy bean 



Linseed, pressed , 



Peanut, Rufisque 



S35. 60 

 32.70 

 32.20 

 36.60 



S35. 85 



$39. 00 



31.75 

 36.10 



$36. 23 

 33.80 

 33.50 

 35.00 



$37. 05 

 34.55 

 33.40 

 35.25 



Alleged injurious effects from feeding soy-bean products have been 

 reported to some extent in the United States and Europe, and their 

 cause has been the subject of careful investigation. As yet, however, 

 no proof is to be had of soy beans or their products causing any 

 injurious effects. Owing to its high content of protein, the meal 

 should be used with the same precautions as are observed with other 

 highly concentrated feeds, to avoid digestive troubles. 



Table VIII gives analyses of soy-bean meal compared with similar 

 concentrated feeds. As regards digestibility, soy-bean meal com- 

 pares very favorably with other oil meals. 



Table VIII. — Analyses of soy-bean meal and other important oil meals} 





Constituents (per cent). 



Kind of meal. 



Moisture. 



Protein. 



Fat. 



Nitrogen- 

 free 

 extract. 



Ash. 



Fiber. 



Sov bean 



7.59 

 6.62 

 8.98 

 9.63 

 10.73 

 7.68 



44. 65 

 40.29 

 33.23 

 37.51 

 46.84 

 23.80 



8.77 

 7.41 

 7.20 

 2.49 

 7.91 

 7.94 



27.12 

 28. 63 

 36.51 

 36.09 

 24.34 

 27.49 



5.89 

 6.21 

 5.40 

 5.54 

 4.89 

 5.03 



5.96 





10.84 



Linseed (old process) 



8.68 





8.74 



Peanut (decorticated). 



5.29 



Sunflower seed 



28.06 







1 Average analyses as reported by the Cattle Food and Grain Investigations Laboratory, Bureau of 

 Chemistry. 



SOY-BEAN MEAL AS A FERTILIZER. 



The utihzation of soy-bean meal for fertilizing purposes has been 

 confined almost entirely to Asiatic countries. For centuries bean 

 cake has been sent to the sugar plantations of southern China, and 

 its use gradually spread to the plantations in Java and other tropical 



