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farther than Pueblo, Leadville, Silverton, and adjoining towns. The 
Pueblo packers have been using them for a number of years and speak 
very highly of them. Thus, the field pea has made the hog industry 
profitable outside of the corn belt. 
SOY BEANS. 
The soy bean is used but little as a forage crop by farmers in this 
section, and the value of this crop is but little appreciated. Soy 
beans can be planted on a field from which a small grain crop has 
been removed, and some varieties will make an excellent growth of 
forage and even mature seed. They will thus furnish pasture for 
hogs during the latter part of August and September, and the green 
and ripening beans when harvested by the hogs in this way make 
an excellent feed. The beans when fed in a ration consisting of one 
part beans and three to five parts of corn or Kafir corn, as shown by 
the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, make a very profitable 
ration for fattening hogs. The saving in the amount of feed nec- 
essary to make a gain of 100 pounds is from 13.2 to 37.5 per cent 
and the increase in gain 1s from 14.6 to 96.4 per cent. Also, in a 
feeding test at the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, where 
soy beans, middlings, and tankage were used as rations with corn, 
the soy beans proved to be the most valuable adjunct used. As 
compared to corn fed alone, hogs that received one-third soy beans— 
to two-thirds corn made two and one-fifth times as much gain in the 
same length of time. The cost per 100 pounds of gain where corn 
was fed alone was $5.01 against $3.59 where one-third soy beans and 
two-thirds corn was fed. Hogs so fed look thrifty, have a good appe- 
tite, fatten rapidly, and have glossy hair like animals fed oil meal. 
The great value of the soy bean is its power to withstand excessive 
drought, like Kafir corn, and it will also withstand much wet weather. 
It is not attacked by chinch bugs and in addition to its great feeding 
value makes an excellent second crop following wheat or oats to build 
up run-down or thin soil. Protein is very necessary in a ration for 
building bone and muscle, as all feeders are coming to know, and the 
soy bean is exceptionally rich in this. It even stands ahead of alfalfa 
in this respect. 
GRASSES. 
The grasses are not so good for hog pasture as the crops previously 
mentioned, but they are used to some extent. Those most commonly 
grown are Kentucky bluegrass, English bluegrass or meadow fescue, 
Bermuda grass, and the native wild grasses. 
Kentucky bluegrass is used through Kansas and southern Nebraska. 
South of Kansas in Oklahoma Bermuda grass is used. 
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