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month they had | ton of cottonseed meal. From September, 19 10, to 

 May, 191 1, they made a gain of 500 lbs. each and were fat and very sleek. 



" We do not find it necessary to feed very much grain to our milking 

 cows to get a good flow of milk and have them in good condition when 

 eating plenty of silage." 



From Hobart, N. Y., a farmer writes that his crop of mixed com and 

 beans did not come up well, but the soy beans grew about 3 or 3I feet high 

 and were well filled with pods. He states that his cows have shrunken 

 in milk flow since he finished feeding the beans. 



A farmer near Lowman, N. Y., has raised corn and soy beans mixed 

 for two seasons. He writes: " I like the Medium Green soy beans best 

 as they get a better growth and harvest better with the corn." Last 

 winter one of his cows, eight years old, gave forty-four pounds of milk 

 a day, eating eight pounds a day of grain with soy ^ean and corn silage. 

 The preceding winter she gave forty pounds of milk daily while eating 

 ten pounds of grain. The addition of soy beans to the silage made a 

 saving of two pounds of grain and a gain of four pounds of milk daily. 



An enterprising farmer at Gouvemeur writes: " After writing the com- 

 pany that made our corn planter and they telling me that they did not 

 think I could plant soy beans and com for silage at the same time, I did 

 some thinking and got them to make some special plates to go into the 

 fertilizer box. With such plates we planted our corn and soy beans at 

 the same time. They came up together and the soys grew from 2I to 4 

 feet high and in no way interfered with the corn in cultivating, harvest- 

 ing, silage cutting, or in handling, and they went into the silo together. 

 We had a great growth of vines but no grain in the soy beans, for they 

 were of a very late variety. * * * -^g took the harvester to the field 

 and fed out green about i| acres and the milk cows would greedily pick 

 out the soy beans first and then go for the corn. We plant com for the 

 grain in silage and it gets ripe enough for good silage." 



From Cuba, N. Y., a young farmer writes: " We planted soy beans in 

 all our ensilage corn this year and they grew very well, being well podded 

 and nearly ripe by the time the corn was ready for the silo. We mixed 

 about I bean to 2 kernels of corn, planting in hills 3 feet apart each way. 

 Our farm is nearly all gravelly loam, a very good corn soil. We think 

 the soy beans add much value to the ensilage on account of their protein 

 content. We procured some seed of the Medium Green variety last year 

 and planted two rows 25 rods long. They produced a bushel of beans, 

 which we used this year in the com, without inoculation of any kind." 



A farmer near Hobart, N. Y., relates his first experience with the mixed 

 crop thus: " I used an artificial culture for inoculating the soy beans. 

 I mixed four quarts of the beans with twelve quarts of Pride of the North 



