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connection with fodder, corn or sorghum. It should be cut for hay when 

 the plants are in late bloom or when a few of the pods begin to form. It 

 is a hay very ditilcult to cure, much more so than red clover, and it is 

 necessary after cutting to throw the plants into a windrow until they have 

 wilted, then to put them up in cocks with small diameter so that the air 

 can pass freely through them. Handling the hay injures it very much in 

 causing the leaves to be broken ofT and lost. Probably the best plan for 

 saving the hay is to stack' it around a pole upon which long limbs have 

 been left. These limbs admit the air. which causes the hay to cure 



Soy Bean — Glycine hispida. 

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much better, but as soy bean hay does not shed rain the stack should be 

 capped with wheat straw or hay that will shed water. 



When harvesting the crop for seed it may be cut with a scythe or 

 mower and put up into small cocks until the pods become thoroughly 

 dry. The threshing may then be done with a flail or with a threshing 

 machine. The soy bean will yield upon good strong land from ten to 

 fifteen tons of green forage per acre which will make from two to three 

 tons of cured hay. At the North Carolina Station an experiment was 

 made with the soy bean and cowpea upon the same character of. soils, 

 both grown under similar conditions. While the soy bean yielded 2 1-4 

 tons of cured hay per acre the cowpea yielded less than a ton. 



