SOY BEANS IN MAINE). 12 J 



Sown in drills 16 inches apart, about 3 pecks of seed is needed 

 per acre. If drilled with a grain drill or sown broadcast more 

 seed, perhaps a bushel per acre, will be needed. 



Soy beans can be grown with corn, mixing the seed at the 

 rate of 10 quarts of corn and 7 of soy beans. Thus seeded the 

 drills should be about 3 ieet apart. 



When sown in drills they should be cultivated the same as 

 common beans. In case of narrow spaces between drills, a hand 

 wheel hoe does the work rapidly and well. 



The crop is best adapted for feeding green or for silage. 



The crop can be harvested by hand or machine. For silage a 

 grain reaper and binder leaves it convenient for handling and 

 for the silage cutter. 



A yield of 8 tons of green crop is an average in average sea- 

 sons on average soil. 



Eight tons of soy bean fodder carries about the same amount 

 of protein as 12 tons corn in milk ready for the silo, but it carries 

 only a little more dry matter than 8 tons of corn. 



If grown with corn, it can be cut with the corn, by hand or a 

 corn harvester. 



When grown by itself for silage, it is best mixed with corn at 

 time of cutting into the silo. About 3 parts corn to 2 parts 

 beans is a very good proportion. 



Less protein (the most expensive part of commercial feeding 

 stuffs) need be fed with soy bean and corn silage than with corn 

 silage alone. 



According to Farmers' Bulletin 58, "the soy bean is excellent 

 for green manuring and for short rotations with cereal crops. 

 It should be well limed when plowed under as green manure." 



