| Show VELVET BEANS FOR CATTLE compare favorably with cottonseed meal produce profitable gains in fattening prepared by the united states department of agriculture the feed question Is being solved in many parts of the south by ablan abundant dant yields of velvet beans which were sown sewn on a large acreage this year owing to the increased acreage in georgia that swe alone could take care or to head of cattle from states where forage Is scarce large quantities of last years velvet beans also remain on hand and are being used extensively in feeding dat dairy ry cattle in tests conducted by the united states department of agriculture on the government forms farms at beltsville md it was found that velvet beans bean compare favorably with cottonseed meal producing profitable gains when the beans are the sole concentrate of the ration that a combination of c ort core silage and velvet beans forms a satis factory ration for fattening steers to fo market that it Is more profitable to fel feed soaked beans than it Is to grina them and that briore beans will bs bi eaten it if soaked before they are fed than if they are fed dry |
