270 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



By the President: — When introducing the last speaker, I 

 said we had brought prominent men from several of the states 

 who were up in the dairy business. We will now close the con- 

 vention Avith a gentleman from your own town. We propose to 

 have the last paper from a gentleman from Greenville. They 

 are good men and he can tell us something w^e want to know. We 

 have told of things done in other states, and we want to know a 

 little more of what you can tell us here. 



PEAS AS FEED. 



By Mr. Geo. Grube, Greenville, III. 



Mr. President : — I am not prepared with a paper, and am not 

 physically able to talk very long. 



As I look over this audience, I see most of the people are 

 from Bond County. I doubt if there is a man here who hasn't 

 been corralled by me on the street and talked peas to until he 

 wished I would shut up and let him go home. But cow peas, I 

 think, have been part of the redemption and prosperity of Bond 

 County. 



We labored along here for years trying to get a strain of 

 clover on our land. We knew that that produced nitrogen and 

 nitrogen would enrich our soil. 



I have been raising cow peas on my place for seven or eight 

 years, and I studied the soil and will give all the information I 

 can from my experience, and I don't know it all yet. 



As to the value of peas : Now, cow pea hay contains, we 

 will say, 10 per cent protein. If we grind that up, we would have 

 it pretty nearly as rich as bran ; bran contains 15 per cent protein. 



One trouble is, we feed too much cow peas. There is not a 

 man but who has made that mistake. He throws a manger full of 



