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300 pounds of basic slag to the acre was cultivated in when the com was 

 tasseling. 



In the same neighborhood another farmer procured a horse-drawn 

 com planter, which dropped com and soy beans in the same hill from 

 separate boxes and distributed fertilizer at the same time. He planted 

 sixteen acres with this machine in fifteen working hours, and the com and 

 beans came up as well as, or better than, when hand-planted. The machine 

 was adjusted to drop 4 to 6 kernels of com and 8 to 10 beans in a hill. 

 For three years this practice was followed and yields estimated at 12 to 

 15 tons of the mixed fodder were secured. This farmer sold out his 



business recently, but 

 continues to advocate the 

 growing of soy beans and 

 com for the silo. 



A farmer in Madison 

 county has grown com 

 and beans on the same 

 land for a number of 

 years and his soil' is 

 thoroughly inoculated 

 with soy bean root- 

 tubercle bacteria. His 

 corn and soy beans are 

 planted in check rows 

 that are 3 feet apart one 

 Fig. 56. — Near view in afield of corn and soy beans, way and 25 feet apart the 

 Aj^igust 5, 1909. Corn was omitted from every third ^^^^^ ^.^y Viewing the 



field from the direction 

 of the narrower rows, there are two rows containing hills of mixed 

 com and soy beans. Every third row grows hills of beans only. 

 This rotation is repeated throughout the field. The com and bean 

 hills are planted with 5 or 6 kernels of com and 8 to 12 beans. The 

 hills of pure beans have 12 soy beans planted in each. In har\-esting, 

 the com binder is run in the direction of the wider rows, mixing 

 the hills of pure beans with those of com and beans in the bundles. 

 The soil used for this crop is capable of yields of 24 tons of com fodder 

 an acre. Weighings were made in the presence of Professor J. L. Stone, 

 of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, in 1909. 

 These weighings showed that the complete mixture of com and soy beans 

 grown by this method was yielding at the rate of nearly 22I tons 

 of fodder an acre, which was 19 per cent soy beans. Weighings from 

 rows that grew mixed hills of com and soy beans showed a yield of 2 7 tons 



