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Stand up much better, causing less trouble in the harvest, and th^ 

 presence of oats or barley in the crop also causes it to cure more 

 quickly. The yield from a mixture of oats and peas is usually 

 larger than that from timothy. The field pea works into a rota- 

 tion very nicely, because of the fact that when harvested for hay 

 it is removed from the field early in the year, thus allowing tim^ 

 for a thorough preparation of the soil during the fall. Thq 

 feeding value of pea hay is quite high, being apparently about 

 the same as that of alfalfa hay. Table II shows the average of 

 15 analyses of field-pea hay as compared with the average of 44 

 analyses of alfalfa hay. 



The figures show the average of all American analyses of 

 field peas and alfalfa reduced to a dry-matter basis, as compiled 

 by Mr. G. L. Bid well, of the Bureau of Chemistry. 



Table II. — Comparative analyses of dry matter in field peas 



and alfalfa. 



o 



Field pea 

 Alfalfa . 



Per cent 

 , 8.68 

 . 8.86 



Per cent 

 19.05 



16.35 



Per cent 



28.14 



26.74 



r-t- CO 



Per cent Per cent 



3-23 3975 

 3.00 45.05 



II 



i5i 



44 



Even the straw from thrashed peas carries a sufficiently high 

 percentage of protein to warrant its careful preservation and use 

 in the feed lot. The digestible nutrients in pea straw compared 

 with those of other well-known roughages, as compiled in 

 Henry's ''Feeds and Feeding," are shown in Table III. 



