Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43328, 21 May 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

‘ ;THE V4LUE OF THE FIELD ••••. ' PEA. • The - great value of field peas in the economy of the farm has long been recognised in a few of the j - American States, not alone because V' they furnish one of the best grains f? r ■ fattening,growing animals, but ■{? because they are not exacting as to . methods of soil preparation or time of . 1 seeding, and because a crop can be removed leaving the soil richer in nitrogen than it was before. Peas ® r ® in muscle and blood and bone-making constituents, and they Are therefore well adapted for all . growing animals or animals at c° r t E?P erij *entsat the Utah and booth Dakota stations of the American Agricultural Bureau have shown < that it requires less peas to produce P or k than when corn is ted. ( In. other words, peas, pound ■ : for. ;pound, produce a greater gain Wath-growing hogs than when corn is and,.the pork produced is often hrmer and, of better quality. For fattening, cattle, peas are unexcelled. • . It is certain also that in the early • stages, of. the fattening of all farm animals, before full maturity is reached, there is no better ration : than peas. Furthermore, pea straw, when properly cured, is better and more relished by horses, cattle, and sheep, than the straw of any of the qther small grains. Vines cut with a pea-harvester, while still a little well, cured and put up wir,;taut, being benched with rain, approach clover in feeding value. £°- Wn f ° r h °gs and sheep, however \‘P. h ee “ not be run through a; cutm .box, but can be fed, fines and & h^SSn g ybeingablet ° d 0 I-- Kl3te ? pcci . al , Commissioner of the “Leader," who is now a ; JnUrfeV States, sends a very interesting account of field pea ex:,4; regard to conversion w oddemor sheep. His inquiries f were made chiefly i n the San Louis - /Wyoming, which claims a J; e .me,most important district in Amenca_.in. t . ’connection with ithis v -,, particular .rmethod of. raising lambs. - OUIS Galley is 7,000 ft above sea,.level, and here in a single * son ■ fieJ d peas. There is; one v Wantage about the field jpea, ‘ . that it will grow in much colder 1 and climates than corn. : season in San Louis . S S ™ r *’ ut tbe peas develop S< , They are so™ in early ■ 3 <WII, and from * >v? ,; together, with a slight iy- °t wheat pr oats, are sown •- ’ e^ c . re * The seed is mixed be- ,, being;, put in the drill, = the ' 1 JSfe s ? ppo s 4o crop. Sheep are turned on »,f the peas are ell podded, but not too ripe. Lambs J£rio^ ped - Off within 70 to go dgys, •• S 5 in atTthe , ot ofbs.a. month, one acrej of r c s°. p estimated to fatten H, A system of moveto confine °L pn ? section of the dock)-until the peas have been eaten to be a more , r *r9ftwne practice than allowing ttem t ,to»»wanderr at will over ithe Apparently, too, ;the r experienced when . e^’'^l P bs ,° n rape is not