SOJA, OR SOY BEAN 185 



12,300 kilos, and increases in the yield of seed of 300 and 

 400 kilos. 



In experiments made in South Africa, accounts of which 

 appear in The Agricultural Journal, fields without manure 

 are seen to give 4,454 kilos of stems to the hectare, whilst 

 phosphatic and potassic manures brought the yield up to 

 7,098 kilos. The seed crop amounted to 1,038 kilos to the 

 hectare, without manure, and, with the manures mentioned, 

 to 2,014 kilos. 



The yields per acre in India are lower than those obtained 

 in South Africa without manuring. In Lahore, according 

 to the " Report on the Government Agri-horticultural 

 Garden," the yield is 349 lb. of seed per acre. In Madras 

 468 lb. ; Bombay 300 lb. ; in Poona, better results are obtained, 

 the yields of seed being 650 to 700 lb. per acre. According 

 to the Reporter on Economic Products in India, the yields to 

 the hectare in 1906-7 at the IManjri Farm were : — 



Black soil ... .. ... ... ... 2,7621b. 



,, ... ... ... ... 1,215 ,, 



,, ... ... ... ... ... 1,540 ,, 



,, ... ... .. .. ... 1 ,362 ,, 



935 .. 



with an average of 1,563 lb. 



In ihe United States the yields recorded have been 

 extremely variable, and trials in several spots have given 

 from 4 to 10 hectolitres of seed per acre. 



M, Boname calculates from the results of his trials at the 

 Agronomic Station at Mauritius that it should be possible to 

 obtain i6|- to 19 hectolitres of seeds, or 14,200 to 16,600 kilos 

 of green fodder to the hectare, the cultivation being a pure 

 one and not interplanted with canes. 



The yields in seeds have been shoAvn to varv according 

 to the species and the conditions of cultivation. 



In the tables of yields given by the Journal de rAfrique 

 du Sud, and also by M. Grandvoinnet, the application of 

 nitrogenous manure has been shown to have no result. 



