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ferred to dryers, from which, after drying, it is sacked and sold 

 as linseed meal or oil meal (new process). 



Oil meal may be adulterated by mixing foreign matter to 

 it or by the flaxseed having mixed with it weed-seed or imma- 

 ture flaxseed. 



Fifty-six pounds of flaxseed constitute a bushel. 



Velvet-bean Meal. — The tropical velvet bean flourishes in 

 all the southern states. The vine grows from 15 to 75 feet 

 in length and covers a large area as a dense mat. Velvet 

 bean makes a good yield reaching 1800 pounds, or 30 bushels 

 of 60 pounds each per acre. 



Velvet-bean meal feeding work was conducted at the N. C. 

 Experiment Station. It was found in 8 lots of broilers that 

 30 per cent, velvet-bean meal gave unfavorable results, 4 per 

 cent, dying and the total losing 13 per cent, in weight. In 11 

 flocks of chicks reared up to eight weeks of age velvet-bean 

 meal milk lots showed a mortaUty of 41 per cent, and the vel- 

 vet-bean meal water lots a mortality of 48 per cent. The 

 amount of velvet-bean meal used was 28 per cent, of the feed 

 mixture. Control lots using middlings in the place of velvet- 

 bean meal lots showed 30 per cent, mortality when given with 

 water and 20 per cent, mortality when fed with milk. 



From these tests velvet-bean meal, consisting of ground 

 pods and beans, cannot be highly recommended as a poultry 

 feed. 



Fat extracted soybean meal contains 38.1 percent, protein, 

 33.9 per cent, carbohydrates, and 5.0 per cent. fat. 



Soybean Meal. — Soybean meal is left over after the extrac- 

 tion of the on. This meal has given excellent results in fat- 

 tening, egg production, as well as in chick rearing work. 



Soybean produces a very large yield and is grown both for 

 forage and for the beans. When grown for seed a yield of 

 from 12 to 40 bushels per acre is obtained. Soybean is grown 

 largely in the southern states. It is an excellent poultry feed. 



Peanut Meal. — Peanut meal is a by-product in the manu- 

 facture of peanut oil. Like soybean meal it has given excel- 

 lent results when forming part of the feed mixture for broiler 

 production, egg production, and fattening. Cracked peanuts 

 are also used in pigeon feeding, 



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