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FIELD OF EARLY SOJA BEANS AT CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM, OTTAWA, CANADA. 
EARLY GREEN SOJA sv BEANS. 
SOJA BEANS have attracted much attention in recent years on account of their high feeding 
qualities, but all were too late to be of value in the Northern States. This early green variety VALUABLE 
has proved its earliness and value in the Northern States by not only producing large fodder crops, GOD) S0uGIEG 
but ripening the seed as far north as Massachusetts. It is worthy of a place on every farm, either | FODDER or GRAIN, 
as a grain crop or fodder crop to feed green, or for the silo. The grain is the richest known veg- ————— 
etable substance, and when ground and fed to cattle gives a milk richer and better than cotton seed or PRODUCES 
other meal. FOR ENSILAGE IT FORMS A COMPLETE, BALANCED FEED_RATION. ENORMOUS CROPS 
While corn is the most serviceable crop for ensilage, though ever so well preserved as to As far North as Canada. 
succulence, odor and flavor, it is an incomplete feed for cattle, being deficient in albuminoids RIPENING SEED AS FAR NORTH AS 
or protein (the flesh formers), as well as fat. This deficiency has hitherto been supplied by MASSACHUSETTS, 
feeding, in addition to the corn silage, such grain as oats, wheat, etc., or concentrated feeds, he ta ee 
such as meal, Oil cake, or some other commodity, rich in the elements in which corn silage is Especially Valuable 
deficient. But the American farmer can now, by the aid of the Soja or Soy Bean and Japanese Millet, (in combination with Japanese Millet 
grow on his own farm, at small cost, a combination which furnishes a wholesome, economical and com- andikoddeet@orn 
pletely balanced feed for -milch cows. This combination should be composed of two parts millet or 
corn to one part Soja Beans, grown separately, but mixed thoroughly, at the time of cutting FOR ENSILAGE, 
and filling of the silo. This combination ensilage develops a most agreeable aromatic odor, and is | Supplying the albuminoids or flesh- 
greedily relished by cattle—both dairy cows and fattening stock. It certainly will be generally used forming food, 
by all up-to-date farmers and dairymen, and will revolutionize the dairy industry of the United 
States. We donot recommend the feeding of this combination to the entire exclusion of grain or | A GREAT 
other concentrated feed. We recommend that grain be fed occasionally as a change, but four- SO| L ENR IC H ER 
fifths of the grain bill can be saved. We recommend all farmers to plant this year at least an } 
acre or two of our Early Green Soja Beans and an equal area of Japanese Millet, to test and Se Ocenia: 
prove for themselves the value of the combination, and we are confident that, thereafter, all who 
try it will each year grow a larger acreage. Planted the latter part of May, in latitude of 
New York, the Beans are ready for harvesting in about 100 days. Japanese Millet comes quicker to maturity than Soja Beans, 
and on the authority of Prof. W. P. Brooks, of Hatch Experiment Station, Mass., should be sown from four to five weeks later, 
so as to be in the best condition for the silo, along with the Soja Beans. Sow the Beans from the middle to end of May, and 
the Millet from last week in June till first week in July; both will then be ready for silo about the end of August. 
Planted in rows 2% feet apart, 6 to 8 plants to the foot of row, requiring three pecks per acre, they yield 15 to 20 tons per 
acre of fodder very rich in flesh formers. For green feed, use from time of blossoming till pods are well filled; for the silo, cut 
as soon as most of the pods are well filled, and cut into %-inch to 24-inch lengths. They are soil enrichers, gathering nitrogen 
from the air same as clover, the roots being crowded with tubercles, which give them this power. (See cut.) {0c. Ib., $1.10 peck, $3.85 
bushel of 60 |bs.; 10-bushel lots, $3.75 bushel. 
LATE SOJA BEANS.—A month later than the early variety; should not be used north of Virginia. $1.00 peck, $3.00 bushel. 
HENDERSON’S SUPERIOR SEEDS are procurable only from us direct—we do not supply through Dealers. 
