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Show FATTENING VALUE OF PEAS For Use With Cattle Crop Probably Is Unexcelled Mako Good Food for Hortea at Work. (Dy I'llOK THOMAS N. BIUW.) There la no kind of live stock on the farm to which peas cannot bo fed with poHltlve advantage when they are to tx bad at prices Dot too high. They are Dot commonly fed to horses, since they can seldom be spared for such a uae, but they make a good food for horses at work, and for colta during the period of development. If given as a part of the grain food. As a food for fattening cattle, peas are probably unexcelled. Much of the success which Canadian feeders have achieved In preparing cattle for the block has risen from the free utte of pens In the diet. During the first part of the finish- Ing period they will be found peculiarly peculiar-ly helpful In making beef, owlug to ) their relative richness In protein, but they are also a satisfactory food at any stage of the fattening process. During the first half of the finishing period peas will bo found superior to corn, but toward the clone of the same, com could probably be fed with greater relative advantage. Teas with oats or bran make an excellent ex-cellent grain food for cattle that are being fattened. Speaking In a general gen-eral way, peas should form about oue-thlrd, oue-thlrd, by weight, of the meal fed, but, as every feeder knows, the relative proportions of meal used should vary somewhit as the season of fattening fat-tening progresses. |
