. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Le.\flet. '}2: analysis proved that it really did contain much of the same food material as the more expensive meat diet which the poorer people could not often afford. Working horses too, and other animals which are growing up or being fattened for market, put on many pounds of solid meat when they are fed on alfalfa hay, pea-meal, soj
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Rural School Le.\flet. '}2: analysis proved that it really did contain much of the same food material as the more expensive meat diet which the poorer people could not often afford. Working horses too, and other animals which are growing up or being fattened for market, put on many pounds of solid meat when they are fed on alfalfa hay, pea-meal, soja-beans (which are really a kind of peas) and other leguminous plants. Split peas are also good food for poultry. The wise farmer carefully saves all the manure from his stables and poultry yards and puts the fertilizer so rich in nitrogen back on the land to serve as food for more growing plants. Where does the pea-plant and its relatives get the nitrogen which they store away so plentifully in their fleshy seeds? Not altogether from the soil, for not many soils are rich in nitrates and of all the fertilizers which the farmer uses, those that are nitrogenous are the most costly. But four-fifths of the atmosphere is nitrogen and it has Deen discovered that leguminous plants can feed largely upon the nitrogen of the air and store it up in their tissues as they grow. It is believed that the plants are enabled to get this nitrogen through the activity of the lower and very minute forms of life known as bacteria or microoes, which can be seen only by the aid of the microscope. Just ho\> ihe plants and bacteria work together is not fully known, but it is an estab- lished fact that the family of Legumes not only do not exhaust the soil as most other plants do in growing, but often leave it in better condition than before the crop was sown. This is why the farmer plows under his field of earl}'- dwarf pea-vines as scon as the crop is picked, and puts in something else to grow, know
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