34 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Horse beans are rich in protein and promise to rank well 

 with plants of that class as forage crops. They have the ability, 

 like most legumes, to gather nitrogen from the air, and conse- 

 quently do not exhaust the soil of that element. At the present 

 time, however, when the price of nitrogenous feeds, like gluten 

 meal and cotton seed meal, is so low, it is a question whether it is 

 not more profitable for a farmer to give his attention largely 

 to growing corn for coarse fodders and buy nitrogenous feeds 

 to balance up the ration. 



