Show soybean soy bean hay excellent for cows during winter for the past two winters soybean soy bean hay bay and alfalfa hay have been compared tor for dairy cows at the pennsylvania experiment station the hays were fed during trials of eight weeks duration to two evenly balanced groups of cows during the first winter the cows receiving soy bean hay produced 39 per cent less milk than those which had alfalfa while during the second winter the soy bean hay group produced 33 per cent less milk mallte than those receiving alfalfa the pennsylvania investigators S 1 I bechdel and P S williams recommend soy beans as an emergency hay crop and state that for all practical purposes soybean soy bean hay la Is but slightly inferior to alfalfa |