P PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 



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soja ob soy BEANS. 



EARLY GREEN. — These beans have attracted much atten- 

 tion in recent years on account of their high feeding qualities, but all 

 were too late to be of value in the Northern States. This variety has 

 proved its earliness and value in the Northern States by not only 

 producing large fodder crops, but ripening the seed as far north as 

 Massachusetts. They are worthy of a place on every farm, either as a 

 grain crop or fodder crop to feed green, or for the silo. The grain is 

 the richest known vegetable substance, and when ground and fed 

 to cattle gives a milk richer and better than cotton seed or other 

 meal. Planted in rows 2% feet apart, with 6 to 8 plants to the 

 foot of row, requiring about half a bushel per acre, they yield 15 to 20 

 tons per acre of fodder exceedingly 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 

 j^-inch to 2>£-inch lengths. They are soil enrichers, gathering 

 nitrogen from the air in the same manner as clover, the roots 

 being crowded with tubercles, which give them this power. 

 15c. lb., $1.25 peck, $4.00 bushel. 



LATE. — Being nearly a month later than the early variety 

 offered above, should not be used north of Virginia. $1.00 peck, 

 $3.00 bushel. 



Valuable 



lor . . . 

 either . 

 Fodder . 

 or ... 

 Grain . . 



J\ EARLY 



BOJA 

 2>U BEAN. 



The "HENDERSON" ENSILAGE COMBINATION. 



II Complete, Balanced Feed Ration down en the Farm. 



Corn is the most serviceable crop for ensilage, but though ever 

 so well preserved as to succulence, odor and flavor, it is an incom- 

 plete feed for cattle, being deficient in albuminoids or protein 

 (the flesh formers), as well as fat. This deficiency has hitherto 

 been supplied by feeding, in addition to the corn, silage, grain, such 

 as oats, wheat, etc., grown on the farm, or the purchase of con- 

 centrated feeds, such as meal, oil cake, or some other commodity, 

 rich in the elements in which corn 

 silage is deficient. But the Ameri- 

 can farmer can now, by the aid of 

 the Soja or Soy Bean, grow on 

 his own farm, at small cost, a 

 combination which furnishes a 

 wholesome, economical and com- 

 plete feed for milch cows. This 

 combination is composed of two 

 parts corn or millet to one part 

 Soja Beans, grown separately, but 

 mixed, when filled in the silo. It 

 may be mixed in these proportions, 

 at the time of cutting and filling of 

 the silo, care being taken to mix 

 thoroughly. The combination 

 ensilage develops a most agree- 

 able aromatic odor, and i > greedily 

 relished by cattle — both dairy 

 cows and fattening stock. It is a 

 complete, balanced ration, and 

 when generally used (as it certainly 

 will be by all up-to-date farmers 

 and dairymen), it will revolutionize 

 the dairy industry of the United 

 States. We do not recommend the feeding of this combination to 

 the entire exclusion of grain or other concentrated feed. We 

 recommend that grain be fed occasionally as a change, but four- 

 fifths of the grain bill can be saved. We recommend all farmers to 

 plant this year at least an acre or two of the Soja Beans, to test 

 and 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. 



Wm. P. Brooks, Professor of Agriculture, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 writes Nou. 25th, 7898: 



"The combination of Corn or Millet, and early Soja Beans, in 

 suitable proportions, certainly puts it within the power of the far- 

 mer to produce silage which makes more nearly a perfectly balanced 

 feed for dairy cows than any other combination with which I am 

 acquainted. This will be evident from the table below, which shows 

 the most generally accepted standard for the feeding of the cow, 

 and the composition of different kinds of silage. It will be seen 



that the millet and soy bean silage 

 contains the various nutrients in 

 nearly the same proportions called 

 for in the standard. The nutritive 

 ratio, that is the proportion of digest- 

 ible flesh formers (albuminoids) and 

 digestible heat producers (carbohy- 

 drates and fat), called for by the 

 standard, is 1:5 7. In the millet 

 and soy bean sileage, it is 1 : 6.0. In 

 our experience, the best propor- 

 tions are about two of the corn or 

 millet to one of the bean. 



"The millet and beans make a 

 very sweet and aromatic silage, 

 highly relished by cows. None of 

 this silage is wasted by the animals, 

 as it is all fine and succulent. When 

 it is remembered, that under fairly 

 good conditions, the millet will give 

 20 to 25 tons of forage in suitable 

 condition for the silo per acre, that 

 the bean will give about 12 tons for 

 the same area, and that the latter, 

 when once it has been grown for a 

 few years upon a farm, will be able under right management to 

 take most of the nitrogen required by the crop from the air, it will 

 be readily admitted that these crops possess great value for 

 furnishing winter feed for our dairy stock. 



"The combination of corn with the soy bean possesses perhaps 

 equal advantages, and upon soils inclined to be dry the corn is to be 

 preferred to the millet, which requires a retentive soil. The millet 

 should be cut for the silo when the seed is in the early milk; the bean, ■ 

 when the pods are all nearly filled, but before the seed begins to 

 harden." 



Standard for cow (1,000 lbs. live -weight) per day 

 {digestible.) 



Corn Silage total 



Millet " (Japanese! total 



Corn and Soy Bean Silage total 



Millet ( Jap. ) and Soy Bean Silage total 



100 lbs. Millet and Soy Bean Silage, furnish 



2.5 lbs. 

 per cent. 



1 9 



1.7 



2.6 



2.8 

 2.8 lbs. 



5 lbs. 

 per cent. 



8 



0.8 



0.8 



1.0 

 1.0 lbs. 



CARBOHYDRATES 



EXTRACT MATTER 



CRUDE FIBRE 



per cent. 



12.8 



13.6 



11.1 



7.2 



per cent. 



6 



7 6 

 7.2 

 7.2 



NUTRITIVE 

 RATIO 



1:5.7 



1:10.6 

 1:13.6 

 1:8.1 

 1:6.0 



fHntri«Ji 1 ™«« n ^™i-^ b £I™oil B / f r i d JF esti ?te nu * rients to the quantities given; the compositions given show total nutrients 

 t nutritive ratio is ratio between total digestible nitrogen containing mroteini. and total digestible carbon containing (carboh 



digestible nitrogen containing (protein), and total digestible carbon containing (carbohydrates), substances. 



