also excellent for late autumn feeding. Corn has the advantage of 

 not toughening like many other crops, and of furnishing an increas- 

 ing amount of palatable and digestible material as it approaches 

 maturity. 



Soj beans originally imported from Japan, have been used with 

 some success as a forage crop. The most satisfactory variety for 

 Northern conditions is believed to be Brooks' medium green, the 

 seed of which can be procured of most large seed dealers. It grows 

 2^ to 3 feet high, needs no support and its stems are thickly set 

 with leaves. The usual quantity of seed to the acre is i6 quarts, 

 sown with the aid of an Eclipse or other planter in rows 2^ feet 

 apart. The planter should be regulated so as to drop the seed about 

 an inch apart in the row. The crop may be cultivated in the same 

 manner as corn, and will be ready to feed early in September. The 

 yield will be from 6 to 10 tons of green fodder to the acre. 



A mixture of early corn and soy beans has 

 Corn and Beans, proved a desirable forage crop for the last ten 



days of August and the first two weeks of Sep- 

 tember. The corn has been sown with an Eclipse corn planter in 

 rows four feet apart, and the beans planted with a hand planter in 

 the same rows with the corn, one lot of beans being placed every few 

 inches. Good success has also been had by mixing the corn and 

 beans together in the proportion of 10 quarts of corn and 7 quarts 

 of beans and planting the mixture with the aid of an Eclipse planter. 

 The crop is to be cultivated in the same manner as corn. The first 

 seeding should be made May i 5 and the second about June 5. One-third 

 of an acre will be sufficient for 10 cows two weeks. The first seed- 

 ing will be ready to cut August 20 and the second the first week in 

 September. The yield to the acre will be in the vicinity of 12 tons, 

 equivalent to about 3,600 pounds of digestible matter. The above 

 mixture will furnish rather more protein than corn, but the cost of 

 the bean seed is more and the labor of cultivation and harvesting is 

 somewhat increased, which, in the writer's judgment, makes up for 

 the increased value of protein secured. 



