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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 3 
Live Stock and Dairy 
SOY BEANS AND COW PEAS. 
For Fodder in New England. 
There are a number of varieties of 
each of these crops. The cow pea is a 
hot-weather plant, and only the earliest 
varieties, such as the Black and Black- 
eye, will develop their seeds in the 
North. It succeeds better than the Soy 
bean on light loams, likely to be defi¬ 
cient in moisture. On medium loams, 
naturally retentive of moisture, the Soy 
bean is preferable. A comparison of 
these two plants has convinced the 
writer that in New England the Soy 
bean—particularly in medium moist 
loams—will yield more dry food material 
and especially more seed, and is conse¬ 
quently to be preferred to the cow pea. 
It is possible that on light dry soils 
northern farmers might secure more fa¬ 
vorable results with the cow pea; in all 
probability, the latter plant is best 
adapted to the South. 
Soy Beans. —The variety best adapt¬ 
ed to northern conditions is known as 
the Medium Green, and was introduced 
by W. P. Brooks, of this Station. The 
plant will thrive on soils suited for In¬ 
dian corn, may be planted and cultivated 
in the same manner, and will mature 
its seed at about the same time. Com¬ 
mercial forms of plant food are prefer¬ 
able to barnyard manure, as nitrogen 
should be used sparingly. A very good 
application for an acre consist of ni¬ 
trate of soda, 100 pounds; dry fish, 100 
pounds; acid phosphate, 300 pounds, and 
double sulphate of potash and magne¬ 
sia, 500 pounds. After the beans have 
been growing on the farm for a few 
years, the fish may be omitted. When 
growing this crop for the first time, it 
is advisable to procure a little soil (100 
pounds for an acre) from fields where 
the bean has been grown for a number 
of years previously, and scatter it upon 
the soil of the field to be used, which 
thus becomes inoculated with the nitro¬ 
gen-gathering bacteria peculiar to the 
Soy bean plant. 
As a Forage Crop. —In the writer’s 
judgment, the chief use of this crop at 
present is for green forage. In growing 
it either by itself or with corn for this 
purpose, it is preferable to make two 
seedings, the first, May 15-20, and the 
second, June 5-10. The usual quantity 
of seed when grown by itself is 16 quarts 
to the acre, which may be sown with a 
corn planter, so regulated as to place 
the seeds about an inch apart in the row. 
There is no objection to a little thicker 
seeding. Cutting for green forage may 
begin when the first pods appear (about 
August 15) and continue for several 
weeks. It is not advisable to cut too 
early, as the power of the plant to gath¬ 
er nitrogen is less during its earlier 
stages of growth. As the plant nears 
maturity on the other hand, the stem 
become tough and woody. A heavy 
(bush) scythe is necessary to cut the 
crop, an ordinary grass scythe being 
generally too light for the purpose. The 
yield will be from eight to 12 tons to the 
acre, and about 50 pounds may be fed 
daily. The writer has had good success 
in growing a mixture of Longfellow field 
corn and Medium Green beans as a for¬ 
age crop. Ten quarts of corn and seven 
quarts of beans for an acre were sown 
together in an Eclipse corn planter in 
rows 3V 2 feet apart. The crop was cared 
for and cut in the same manner as corn. 
Time of sowing and cutting, the same 
as when beans were grown by them¬ 
selves. When cutting begins, the corn 
will have partially developed ears, and 
the beans win be podding. The yield will 
be in the vicinity of 12 to 14 tons to the 
acre, and one-third of an acre will gen¬ 
erally be sufficient for 10 cows two 
weeks. A small power cutter is a great 
convenience on any farm. Such crops 
as corn and corn and beans are eaten 
clean if cut fine. 
As a Silage Crop. —I have grown 
corn and Soy beans quite extensively in 
separate fields for silage. The beans may 
be cut with a heavy scythe or mowing 
machine, and placed in the silo in alter¬ 
nate layers with the corn (two-thirds 
corn and one-third beans). The mixed 
silage makes a very satisfactory feed, 
and contains fully one-thira more pro¬ 
tein than corn silage. A number of 
years’ experience has convinced me, 
however, that the extra expense involved 
in cutting and putting the beans into 
the silo by present methods, exceeds the 
value of the increased amount of pro¬ 
tein obtained. If the corn and bean mix¬ 
ture can be cut and bound with a corn 
harvester (an experiment not yet tried 
by the writer) or if a machine can be 
made to cut and bind the bean fodder 
when grown by itself, it is believed that 
it will be economical for many farmers 
to grow such a mixture in preference 
to corn for a silage crop. The problem 
of economy in handling will undoubted¬ 
ly be solved before long. It is not advis¬ 
able to silo beans by themselves. While 
it is probably true that larger yields can 
be obtained when corn and beans are 
grown separately, it is believed that the 
reduced cost of growing and handling 
the crop would warrant their being 
grown together. 
Seed and Hay.—B rooks has fed 
ground Soy beans in place of cotton¬ 
seed meal with quite satisfactory re¬ 
sults. It is not thought, however, that 
they are economical as a grain crop, it 
being cheaper to purchase nitrogenous 
matter in the form of cotton-seed or 
other protein meal. Farmers on the 
other hand, situated long distances from 
the markets, and where freight charges 
are excessive, might grow their protein 
in the form of Soy-bean meal to advan¬ 
tage. The yield of seed is from 25 to 
35 bushels to the acre (a legal bushel in 
Massachusetts weighs 58 pounds). Soy¬ 
bean straw has little feeding value and 
is not satisfactory for bedding. Neither 
Soy beans nor cow peas are satisfactory 
as a hay crop, for the reason that the 
leaves when dry become brittle and 
break off easily. [Prof.] J. b. lindsley. 
Mass. Ag’l College. 
SILAGE AS HOG FOOD. 
We have never fed silage to hogs. It is 
our opinion that a small quantity of sllaee 
could be fed without injury, but we do 
not consider it a food for hogs. 
Hutton, Minn. J. h. duxbury & bro. 
We never have fed any silage to our 
hogs, as such a thing is almost unknown 
in the West. We use beets or Alfalfa hay 
twice a week during the Winter and it 
seems to be just what they need. 
Edgar, Neb. c. h. searle. 
In my locality there is no silage used, 
but I am of the opinion that it would be 
a great feed for growing hogs, fed with 
ground oats and cornmeal. We feed clover 
hay cut fine, ground oats and shorts and 
some ear or shelled corn, and for small 
pigs we make a thick slop of ground oats 
(with hulls sifted out) and shorts, and 
feed in trough, and some shelled corn 
soaked 24 hours. d. w. brown. 
Union City, Ind. 
At the Wisconsin Station, after repeated 
tests, we have found that hogs will eat 
only the ear parts of corn silage. They 
will eat a little of clover silage. In Sum¬ 
mer we would hardly expect the hog to 
eat the stalk, leaves and husks of the corn 
plant. Sometimes they chew the stalks to 
get the sweet juice contained, but they 
always reject the fibrous portion. Now, if 
the hog will not eat the green stalk with 
its husks and leaves, we can hardly look 
for it to consume the same parts after they 
have been silaged. It is possible that hogs 
which have been forced to live upon a very 
restricted or limited diet may make use of 
silage, or there may be some form of si¬ 
lage superior to anything we have ever 
had made from the corn plant; otherwise 
I should not expect hogs to make much use 
of corn silage. w. a. henry. 
Wisconsin Experiment Station. 
There is not a silo in this part of the 
State. I think a small quantity of linseed 
oil meal mixed with shipstuff made into 
slop for a part of each day's ration is a 
fine feed, and particularly so in the Win¬ 
ter, when they can get no grass or other 
green food. If mixed up into a thin slo_p 
and allowed to stand about 12 hours it has 
an oily appearance, and being a laxative 
it tends to regulate the bowels and pre¬ 
vents costiveness, which is so common in 
cold weather. s. y. thornton. 
Blackwater, Mo. 
We have never, in our 26 years of breed¬ 
ing purebred swine fed any silage. We 
use sugar beets or sorghum for a succu¬ 
lent feed in Winter. I have no doubt, how¬ 
ever, that silage would be a good feed, 
and if we were using it we would let them 
have all they would eat up clean, and feed 
with it a feed of ground oats and corn, 
with some wheat middlings, all mixed in 
a thick slop and fed warm to the breeding 
sows and young pigs. If feeding fatten¬ 
ing hogs we would leave out oats and 
middlings and feed all corn with the silage. 
ROSCOe, Ill. A. J. LOVEJOY. 
Cotton-Seed Meal for Hens.— The past 
Winter I have fed my 100 hens whole grain 
at night and a mash of about 10 pounds 
bran, cornmeal and cotton-seed meal, 
equal parts by weight in morning. My 
fowls are healthy and laying about 45 eggs 
per day. m. t. c. 
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