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Show Soy Beans and Cow Peas for Hens. A most interesting investigation recently re-cently conducted by the bureau of animal ani-mal industry has had for its object the determination of the palatability of soy beans and cow peas as a feed for laying hens. Three pens were used, each receiving in addition to their mash a grain feed composed in the check pen of equal parts of wheat and whole corn, and in the other oth-er pens cow peas and soy beans in place of the wheat. After a few days both the cow peas and the soy beans were eaten readily and apparently relished. The hens ' seemed to do quite as well on the cow peas or the soy beans as on the ration containing wheat. |