
NITROGENOUS FEEDING STUFFS. Gd. 
the ordinary pea meal or the ‘‘split pea refuse.’’ All of the 
pea meal products have proven particularly valuable for fat 
tening lambs, being used with greater safety than most other 
nitrogenous feeds for this class of stock. "They have also been 
fed to some extent in milk production. 
Soy beans are being introduced into this country for use as a 
grain feed, and as a home-grown source of protein are worthy 
of the thoughtful consideration of farmers. ‘The meal of soy 
beans is nearly equal to cotton seed meal in the quantity of 
protein it contains. The soy bean meal has been experimented 
with only to a limited extent in feeding milch cows, but as far 
as it has been fed it is found to compare closely in feeding 
value with cotton seed meal. ‘The medium early white variety 
is the one most grown for seed, and the meal of this contains 
from 31 to 37 per cent. of protein. Farmers would do well to 
experiment with the soy bean and ascertain its value as a farm 
crop for use in feeding dairy stock. 
The Cow pea will not mature seed in Connecticut, and the 
meal has not been found in our markets. In the South it has 
been largely grown, both for its seed and as a forage crop, and 
farmers there are using the cow pea meal in feeding nearly all 
kinds of farm stock. 
GREEN AND DRY FODDERS OF THE LEGUMES. 
The principal leguminous fodders of value for feeding green, 
or for drying as hay, are the clovers, Canada peas, soy beans, 
and cow peas. Details with regard to growing these crops 
have been given in Bulletin 17 of the Station. Their advan- 
tage over the hays of grasses, corn fodder, and stover for feed- 
ing is due mainly to the larger quantities of protein they con- 
tain. When plenty of clover is available for feeding dairy 
stock less of such feeds as cotton seed, linseed, and gluten meals 
need be purchased. Some of the coarse growing legumes like 
the cow pea and soy bean, which cannot be readily cured and 
preserved dry, may be made into silage. By mixing them 
with corn fodder in filling the silo a mixed silage of greater 
value than that made from corn alone may be obtained. 
Clovers.—All of the clovers are far more valuable to feed 
than the ordinary hay of grasses. ‘Thirty-six analyses of com- 
mon red clover hay, compiled by Jenkins and Winton,* show a 

* U.S, Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations, Bulletin No. 11. A Compilation 
of Analyses of American Feeding Stuffs. 
