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HAWKEYE, a sturdy new soybean 

 with a large, yellow seed, was 

 introduced this fall by the Illi- 

 nois agricultural experiment sta- 

 tion during the time when most 

 of the state's soybean acreage was 

 being combined. 



This new high yielding bean is ex- 

 pected to be of greatest value in the 

 northern one-half of the state in the 

 area where the Richland variety is now 

 produced. It can be used as an early 

 variety to follow winter wheat. 



J. C. Hackleman, University of Illi- 

 nois crops specialist, who helped to 

 farm out a small amount of stock seed 

 this year, says Hawkeye has the same 

 resistance to lodging as Richland, but 

 is higher yielding and grows taller. 



The experiment station has only a 

 small amount of seed on hand and this 

 will be allotted to counties in the 

 northern one-half of Illinois on the 

 basis of their acreage of Richland beans 

 during the past two years of 1945-46. 



HAWKEYE IS TALLER 



The tlawkeye plants grow from four 

 to six inches taller than Richland and 

 stand well. There is little or no shat- 

 tering. The pods are light in color 

 and usually contain two yellow, almost 

 round seeds, with a hilum color charac- 

 teristic only to Hawkeye. 



During a four-year test from 1943 

 to 1946, Hawkeye yielded an average 

 of 32.1 bushels an acre compared to 

 33.2 for Lincoln, 28.3 for Richland and 

 29.5 for Mukden. 



In short, the new bean combines the 

 better characteristics of the Lincoln and 

 Richland. Its yiefd is about that of 

 Lincoln and has about the same oil 

 content. It matures as early as Rich- 

 land but grows four to five inches taller 

 and has Richland's .s»me resistance to 

 lodging. 



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Flnt of the '48 soybean crop comes pouring 



out of combino hopper held by Joe Mumaw 



•n Hie Cewles form near Alpha, Henry 



county. 



The oil content has averaged 20.6 

 per cent for Hawkeye, 20.7 for Lincoln, 

 20.2 for Richland, and 194 for Muk- 

 den, Hackleman reports. Hawkeye 

 matures about as early as Richland. 



The Hawkeye variety was developed 

 from a cross between Mukden and 

 Richland made at the USDA regional 

 soybean laboratory located at Ames. 

 The Illinois Experiment Station is as- 



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sociated with the regional laboratory 

 and gets its Hawkeye seed through 

 them. 



Hackleman said that the experiment 

 station will insist that Illinois Hawkeye 

 growers agree to a rather rigid four 

 point control program to allow for 

 maximum yields of seed beans next 

 fall. 



To qualify as a grower farmers must : 

 1. Agree to certify all acreages seeded 

 to Hawkeye. 2. Agree to not sell seed 

 outside their county until the county is 

 supplied. 



3. Follow the instructions of the 

 state and county seed distribution com- 

 mittees on the amount of seed to sow 

 per acre, the final selling price of the 

 seed, and other regulations. 



4. Have had experience in produc- 

 ing certified seed and have demonstrat- 

 ed previously their ability to produce 

 and distribute high-quality seed. 



County committees will be asked to 

 serv^ in much the same way they did 

 for distributing Clinton oats a year ago. 

 All seed produced in Illinois will be 

 used in the state. 



'47 CROP EXCELLENT 



Frank Haines of the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation said the quality of the Il- 

 linois crop this year was excellent. 



Haines reported that as of early No- 

 vember almost all the beans sola thus 

 far on the Chicago Board of Trade 

 have been graded as No. 1 and No. 2 

 beans. The moisture content has been 

 low. running under 13 or 14 per cent. 



The beans, he said, have been coming 

 into the large markets fairly clean, due 

 in part to the fact that this year grow- 

 ers have had to stand all the dockage. 

 Last year the processors assumed dock- 

 age up to two per cent by weight for 

 weed seeds and foreign matter. 



The 1947 crop was estimated on 

 Oct. 1 as being 64,087,000 bushels, 

 well above the 1936-45 ten-year aver- 

 age of 50,239,000 bushels, but down 

 from the bumper 1946 crop of 75.036,- 

 000 bushels. 



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DECEMBER. 1947 



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