122 DESCRIPTION OF FEEDING STUFFS 
vines, making a gain of about 8 pounds per month while thus 
grazing. An acre of peas will fatten 10 to 15 lambs, putting these 
in the finest possible condition for the market in the course of 70 to 
90 days. A somewhat longer period is required for ewes that are 
lean when first turned into the pasture. Swine will keep healthy 
and make rapid gains on a pea pasture alone when turned in as 
soon as the peas are full-sized. For both these classes of animals 
the growing of field peas presents great possibilities in the northern 
sectious of the country where this crop grows to the best advantage. 
Fic. 19.—Sweet clover is an excellent soil builder. Cut for hay at an early stage 
(before blooming), it makes a good quality of hay which resembles alfalfa in composition. 
(Breeders’ Gazette.) 
When peas are grown for canneries, the whole crop is now 
generally delivered, and the peas are separated from the vines at 
the factory by means of threshers. The vines, which often contain 
many peas with pods, are either siloed and the silage used for 
sheep and steer feeding, or cured into hay. Pea vines make a very 
nutritious hay that is relished better by horses, cattle, and sheep 
than the straw of the grain crops (Stone). If cut before maturity 
and well cured, it appoaches clover hay in feeding value.t® 
* Delaware Bulletin 41. 
