Show PEANUTS VALUABLE ED FOR LIVE STOCK IN MOST SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH WOW W 14 k FIELD OF PEANUTS GROWN FOR FORAGE IN TRUS prepared Prepare 4 by the united states stales department of Arri agriculture culture the peanut to Is one of the lie more important crops grown in the south tor for feeding to hogs thousands of acres being grown for that purpose few it if tiny crops will produce more pounds of pork on an oil mi aero acre of efland land or produce it ot at a lower cost per pound A good crop of peanuts will produce jit t least pounds of pork per nere acre find and it if the liny buy Is harvested before turning tile tho hogs into the he patch tt it will practically pay the cost of growing in iii siddi tion to tho the profit on the pork the alie crop producing of the soll soil will bo be materially increased due to the addition of humus and nitrogen tills this Is very important ns na much of the alto land in tho the peanut growing sect sections lons Is deficient fici ent lit in both by malting successive plantings of peanuts at intervals of 15 to 30 days day 4 it Is possible in ili most sections of tile lie south to have peanuts available for the hogs front from midsummer until the end of november in pasturing liggs on peanuts it ls la bist best to confine them to small areas by using portable fences rather than to ta let them have tit tin run of the whole field plant between corn hows brows in some sections of tile the southern states tile the peanut Is planted between th erows of corn either at the time the corn la Is planted or at the lost last cuti culi after the corn Is harvested cattle are turned in to eat cat tile the fodder and peanut tops hogs are then urn ed cd in to eat cat the peanuts in till this WRY way j I 1 the stubble and roots of the Poil peanuts kiltS supply humus belaus ard and most of the nitrogen g on stored in the nodules on tho the roots Is left in tile the soll soil hogs fattened exclusively on peanuts do not yield a very desirable grade of meat ond and lard us as the meat is s soft and tho lord oily this can calbo bo remedied rem elied to a large extent howe lio wever verby by feeding corn and other feeds along with the peanuts in addition to growing peanuts to be fed in the field the crop can be cured ands and stored fored la in barns or sheds for winter feeding the entire Is a very valuable feed for nearly nil all classes of live stock peanut tiny liny consisting of i the entire plant otter after the nuts arc removed i has ins it a much higher feeding value ann than the grass liap lainys and about the same value as c lover clover inny the average yield of peanut hay Is about two thirds of a ton per acre with acrea of pon peanuts nuts the estimated acreage for 1017 thero there would be produced about 1333 OW tons of peanut tiny liny with ft a tat a ot o t at boast 20 the peanut Is especially val valuable as asi a crop to bo be grown pi own for feed in tile drier sections of it he 0 S southwest es w where h re it Is impossible to geow corn to advantage peanuts will withstand drought better lhnn most farin crops lit in boine boirie regions where corn will tint not produce brodu ce five bushels perrero per aero peanuts have hac proved very satisfactory alie crap ftp Is of value also on land carrying a consid crable percentage of alkali peanut Ioa meal a product byproduct by from froin pea nut oil manufacture la is it highly concentrated cent rated feed tile the meal made from nuts contains cont alna about 45 percent protein 0 to 0 per cent fat an and 23 to 21 24 per cent carbohydrates dupill front from the lie lin shelled nuts contains nebout 80 30 per cent protein 0 1 to 0 9 per cent tot fat andi and it 21 to 22 per cent carbo hydrates the meat meal froni from shelled nuts has about the some main feeding value na as cottonseed meal and can be used timed for fora tile tho same purpose with the short age of foods feeds high in protein tho 1110 demand for peanut benl nt lit it good gond price w will III probably exceed the supply it la especially valuable for dairy cattle aud and hogs and tins has been used to furnish a large percentage of the lie protein in a home homo mixed horse borse feed lit in fact falch one largo large fanner hns has been using pen nut meal for several years for feeding work horses and claims that it la Is tile tho clien cheapest pest protein feed lie tins has ever used it can be used in quite large quantity in connection with other feeds without injurious effects when fed to hogs peanut meal roea does not produce soft pork rind and for tills this reason it la Is p referable preferable to raw peanuts shells for fop feed peanut shells which in large quantities nt at cleaning and shelling factories are sometimes ground ath low grade pen nuta and sold for feed tho the shells however have lacally no feeding value its as they coba consist largely of crude fiber all peanut feeds should be sold on tho the basis bails of their protein fat and carbohydrate bo content rather than on the ton basis poi for example 7 0 pounds of meal made from shelled peanuts tins practically the same feeling feeding value us its L sno 3 pounds of meat meal mado front from nil sit shelled belled nuts these amounts Amount 4 represent the meni meal left as a n byproduct by product from peanut oil manufactured from a n ton of farmers stock Spit peanuts dent benl era selling peanut meal should show on tile I 1 label a hot whether it Is made aroi from shelled or nuts in fact tills this 19 requIred by law in some states |