. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 190 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED excellent roughage for horses, cattle, and sheep. When cowpea hay is fed to dairy cows or fattening steers the concentrates may be re- duced to one-half the amount needed when a carbonaceous roughage, such as corn stover or hay from the grasses, is fed. To support the vines, cowpeas are often grown with corn or sorghum. Frequently, some of the cowpea seed is picke
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 190 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED excellent roughage for horses, cattle, and sheep. When cowpea hay is fed to dairy cows or fattening steers the concentrates may be re- duced to one-half the amount needed when a carbonaceous roughage, such as corn stover or hay from the grasses, is fed. To support the vines, cowpeas are often grown with corn or sorghum. Frequently, some of the cowpea seed is picked by hand, and the remainder of the crop grazed by cattle, sheep, or pigs. Cowpeas and corn or sorghum also make palatable protein-rich silage. Thru greater use of cow- peas and the other legumes which nourish there the live-stock industry of the South may be enormously increased. Soybean.—Soybeans, which mature sufficiently for hay wherever corn may be grown for silage, and are not injured by slight frosts, are better adapted to the northern part of the corn belt than cowpeas. Tho more drought-resistant than cowpeas, they will not thrive on such poor land. The plants, which are bushy, should be cut for hay. Fig. 53.—Soybeans Which Yielded Tons of Hat Per Acre Soybeans are adapted to the same range of climate as corn and, because of their resistance to drought, are especially suited to sandy soils. (From Breeder's Gazette.) when the pods are well formed but before the leaves begin to turn yellow, for soon thereafter the stems become woody and the leaves easily drop off. The crop yields from 1 to 3 tons per acre of hay equal to cowpea or alfalfa hay in feeding value. While soybeans- alone make rank smelling silage, 1 ton of soybeans ensiled with 3 to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original He
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