Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1900-02-02

Cow Peas, tnifty-thrce ana 3
third bushels TO tom 2s.S protein,
$500 carbohydrates, i.7fat, $iz3a
value
Oats. sixty bushels 60 ton. lis
protein, 59.7 carbohydrates. SO fat
S16.72 value
Corn, thirty-dee bushels to ton,
zoos protein, 90 carbohydrates
5.4 fat Si772 value.
oil Cake. one ton. $50 protein
SS4 carbohydrates $40 fat. 5000
value
Cotton Seed Meal one ton. 42.s
/ protein, $50 carbohydrates, 1911
fat, 1892 value.
a knowledge or want Of know
ledge of this table makers one man
a success, another man a failure.
Your successful man may not know
the figures, buthe knows The effects
that follow the use of these differ
ent feeds
Take COW peas, oats and corn,
and you will see they are very
nearly the same in figures, but feed
them separately to your young
stock and you will find the COW pea
is much the best, oats next, corn
last For work stock corn is the
standard.
You will note that the Soy bean
has more than three times as much
protein as corn or oats, three times
as much fat as corn or oats, less
than cotton seed meal, but the bean
is more digestible The Soy bean
having nearly seventeen pounds
fat or oily matter gives it special
value as a lubricator of the bowels.
1t is this easy digestion and fat
that makes the Soy bean the great
est for the dairy COW, the brood
SOW, breeding eve or winter egg
food we can grow on a farm.
All stock men know timothy hay
in winter produces constipation of
the bowels, and that clover hay
keeps them in an ideal condition.
Soy beans and Cow peas have ex-
actly the same effect as red clover.
After growing and feeding Soy
beans and Cow peas for years, not
ing carefully the results produced
as feed, both the grain and hay, as
well as the value as fertilizers, l
predict that in the near future
Soy beans will supplant both cotton
seed meal and oil cake in any lati-
tude where they will mature.
We are led to this conclusion be-
cause a farmer can raise a ton of
Soy beans, worth (threshed straw
included) three times as much as
ton of corn, and for less cost than
the ton of corn, and for the addi-
tional reason, while he is raising
this ton of highly concentrated food
he is at the same time adding a fer
tilizer to his soil worth nearly as
much as the feed value
will give one more table, giving
Cow peas, red clover and Soy beans,
seed top and roots as fertilizers
That is to say, crops estimated
and plowed under at proper times
will add the several values to the
top soil, getting the nitrogen from
the air, and the phosphate and pot
ash from below where our common
farm crops reach.
The estimated yields is based !
upon the crop grown on good clover
oil
Soy beans, nine and half tons
per acre, ia nitrogen, A phos-
poric acid, 1l5 potash, S3405.
Wv PGdo' & * ~ WIS YSl 81 g W /
nitrogen, q phosphoric acid, al
potash, $3.50.
Red clover, thirteen tons per
acre, 1872 nitrogen, 40 phosphoric
acid, 1874 potash, S3S.75.
Corn, oats, wheat and all the
grasses Except the cloyers) are soil
termed exhaustive
crops, because they take up the ele-
ments that make their growth,
namely, nitrogen, phosphate and
potash, all out of the soil, each crop
using so much of this fixed amount
A depleted and wornout soil stands
for the degree Of exhaustion. Soy
beans, Cow peas and all the Glow
ers, or leguminous family Of plants,
are termed air feeders Of renovator
crops. We call the bean and pea