ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



COW pea hay, just the same as he did a manger full of timothy 

 hay, which I consider as good as so much fine shavings to feed 

 to a milk cow. The consequence is, the cow roots around, picks 

 it over and gets the pods, and they say the cow wastes it.. We 

 don't get the number of tons to the acre of other stuff. The 

 reasons we don't get the results, is because we have fed into the 

 cow more protein than her system can assimilate and consequent- 

 ly it just floats off and is wasted. 



Pea hay is the best food we have for milk. It stands 10 

 per cent protein, clover hay per cent and oats hay 4 per cent. 

 That is the relative values. If the farmers would feed this in 

 smaller quantities we would get a better result from it, than we 

 would from feeding so much of it. We would be better satisfied 

 with the smaller yield as well as being satisfied with the results 

 that we get from the peas as a fertilizer on our ground. 



Of course I was put on this program to talk about peas as 

 feed. I was not consulted on that question. I would rather draw 

 out discussion. I would like to have questions asked and sit d^^vn 

 and listen to them. If I could stir up a hornet's nest of discussion, 

 I would think I had done something. 



The uses of cow peas' are so many, I think if I were to try 

 and go through all of them, it would be a long talk. You people 

 are my neighbors here, know that that is the situation. 



There is one thing I want to say about cow peas and corn 

 together. There are some, maybe, who have not heard me talk 

 about that. You know I advocated planting corn and peas togeth- 

 er. That is a combination, I feel is going to be worth some ones 

 talking about. I contend this, to plant peas with the corn is 

 good, while I am not willing to say that it is the way to do to 

 to mix peas and corn together, that, part I don't approve. 



In the absence of a planter with two sets of boxes on it, so 

 peas come out of one box and corn out of the other and marking 

 along the same row, have a check managed so the corn and peas 

 will drop out in the same hole, will be about the same thing. If 

 we had a machine of that kind it would pay for itself the first 

 year, you could throw your planter away. I contend it is worth 

 all it costs for any of three things, as a fertilizer for your ground, 



