Show Feed Value of Mixture Superior to Oats Alone Many farmers are substituting Il a mixture of oats barley borley and peas for oats grown separately They are doing doIng do- do Ing this because very often they have found oats alone to be an unprofitable crop and yet ct they feel that oats has hasan hasan an Important place In the rotation As a result ot of Investigation about the state the New York college of agriculture nt at Ithaca reports that this mIxture of oats barley and ond peas pea Is satisfactory as n a nurse crop and gives I a yield of grain usually higher than of oats alone The feeding value or of orthis this mixture further Is much superIor to oats Another advantage Is that the pens peas In the mixture being being-a being a l legume gume will help maintain soil fertility by utilizing nit nitrogen rogen In the aIr An objection the college workers find to the combination Is the slight additional cost or of the seed In makIng t the he mixture a bushel f oats a bushel of barley and a gal bushel of Canada field pens peas have produced pro pro- produced good results This mixture should usually be sown at the rate or of about two and one half bushels to th the acre although altho on rich deh soils one and one half to two bushels be r enough h I |