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Show FATTENING VALUE OF PEAS For Use With Cattle Crop Probably Is Unexcelled Make Good Food for Horses at Work. (liy PROF. THOMAS N. SHAW.) There is no kind of live stock on the farm to which peas cannot be fed with positive advantage when they are to be had at prices not too high. They are not commonly fed to horses, since they can seldom be spared for such a use, but they make a good food for horses at work, and for colts 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 use of peas In the diet. During the first part of tho finishing finish-ing period they will be found peculiarly peculiar-ly helpful in making beef, owing 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 be found superior to corn, but toward the close of the same, corn could probably be fed with greater relative advantage. Peas 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 one-third, one-third, by weight, of the meal fed, but, as every feeder knows, the relative proportions of meal used should vary somewhat as the season of fattening fat-tening progresses. |