The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-10-27
easily raised and that can be used t.

easily raised and that can be used to
such good advantage is compromising
feeding rations as the soy bean. The
value of feeding stuff is measured
by the amount of fat and portein in
it, and the chemical ANALYSIS show the
soy bean to contain three times more
protein than corn and one-third more
than COW peas. Farmers are just be-
ginning to see the necessity of high
ly concentrated food. Hence the
great demand for bran, and what am
endeavoring to show, is that we still
have better and cheaper way of get
ting our protein and fat forming ele-
ments. To make this plain we will
compare the soy bean. with bran and
oil meal. Prof. Henry, in his book OH
Feeds and Feeding" gives the
amount of digestible nutriments in q
ton of oil meal to be 1,422 pounds;
bran, 1862; while soy beans contain
1926 pounds per ton. Now 1.422
pounds of digestible nurtiments in oil
meal costs us $2s; 1902 pounds of
bran costs us SIS, while 1926 pounds
of digestible nutriment per ton of soy
beans can be grown at cost of two
dollars in work and q small cash out
lay for seed. Steward, in his book
on the feeding of animals, estimates
the feeding value of ton of soy
beans to $44, while the fertilizing val
ne of the decaying roots is $40 per
acre.
Our experience with soy beans il
this: They have no equal as feed so
far as we have tried them. For hogs
and dairy cattle they are superb. The
increase in the milk pail and butter
tub confirms us in the belief that they
have no equal as feeding stuff. TAX
ing into consideration, first, their
great nutritive value, second, cheap
ness, and, third, fertilizing value
which is equal to that of clover-they
are certainly valuable crop. Our
cattle will leave clover knee high and
eat soy bean forage in preference.
Ground that produces one and one
half tons of timothy hay will pro-
duce three tons of bean hay, which
is worth $3.50 more per ton than
timothy, says Prof. Morris. We find
we can produce pork, beef and milk
at very low rate with the soy bean.
We fattened a bunch of hogs last fall
almost exclusively on soy beans. just
three weeks before selling, we COM
menced feeding corn. The hogs were
fattened in the shortest time and
made the finest meat we ever pro-
duced. Their coats had a glossy ap-
pearance which would cause one to
think they were kept curried. Mr.. w.
H. Wilson, of Virginia, gives five rea-
sons for growing more beans than
corn. He says: First, / can get more
net money out of one bushel of soy
beans than can out of five bushels Of
corn; second, i think that corn is five
times harder on ground than the soy
bean; third, corn costs me five times
more to grow; fourth, think the soy
bean five times greater in oily mat
ter than corn; fifth, I think the soy
bean five times better for producing
meat, milk and butter than corn"
This man has grown this crop II
years. AS a food for man the soy
bean is good, whether cooked, like
green peas, parched and eaten as pea
nuts or ground and used as coffee. 1t
has been sold as the coffee bean by
some seedmen. No farmer would be
without this valuable plant after
once giving it fair trial.-Evan B.
Davis.