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Show A NEW POULTRY FOOD The poultry journals are recommending velvet beans as the lest and cheapest feed for chickens. Velvet beans have not been prominent in the farming world until the last year" or two, but ; they have taken the Southern states by storm. The crop of 1917 appears to have been over a million tons. Owing to the shortage of help many acres were not harvested, and owing to lack if proper mills, thousands of tons have not yet been ground. Many farmers have secured small mills, running by hand or other power to grind them. The Georgia analysis of 24 samples of the pure ground beans averaged : protein, 24.86 ; fat, 5.88; crude fiber, 5.67. Same number of samples of the pod and beans ground together, as it is commonly done, average: protein, 19.19; fat, 4.35; crude fiber, 12.05. It is said that the velvet bean will lower the price of poultry and eggs, for as feed for chickens it costs much less than any other feed. These beans are planted with corn and the farmers aay that the corn crop is larger than when no beans are planted for the nodules on the roots gather and store much nitrogen in the soil. It is claimed that 2,000 pounds of beans can be gathered , from an acre in addition to the corn crop. |