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EARLY SOJA BEANS. 
These beans have attracted much attention 
in recent years on account of their high feed- 
ing 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 todder 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 gri.und 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 % inch to 2% inch lengths. They 
are soil enrichers, gathering n tro- 
gen from the air in the same man- 
nerasc over, the roots being crowded 
with tubercles, which give them this 
power. 15c.1b.; $1.25 pxk.; $4.00 bu. 
LATE.—Being nearly a month later than 
the early variety offered above should not be 
used north of Virginia. $2. pk.; $3. bu. 
THE “ HENDERSON ” 
A COMPLETE BALANCED FEED RATION 
GROWN ON 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 concen- 
trated feeds, such as meal, oil cake, or some other commodity, rich 
in the elements in which corn silage is deficient. But the 
American 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, ecouom- 
ical and complete 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, or it may be placed in layers, and mixed as fed. Th2 
combination ensilage develops a most agreeabI1> 
aromitic odor, and is 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 dairvmen), 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. Werecommend that grain be fed occasion- 
ally 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. 
ENSILAGE COMBINATION. 
Win. P. Brooks, Professor of Agriculture, Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College, writes Nov. 25th, 1898. 
‘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. Jt will be 
seen that the millet and soy bean silage contains the various nutri- 
ents in nearly the same proportions called for in the standard. 
The nutritive ratio, that is the proportion of digestible flesh form- 
ers (albuminoids), and digestible heat producers (carbohvdrates 
and fat), called for by the standard, is 1:5.7. In the millet and 
soy bean silage, itis 1:6.0. In ourexperience, the best proportions 
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 ani- 
mals, 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 upona 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.”’ 
y. 7 7. 2S, 7 . ” 
PROTEIN. FAT CARBOHYDRATE + Ns 
EXTRACT MATTER.| CRUDE FIBRE. = 
Standard for cow (1,000 lbs. live weight). | 
per days (digestzbles) i. es ectele- cevevieicines > = 2.5 Ibs. 0.5 Ibs, 13.0 lbs 175.7 
per cent. per cent. per cent. | per cent 
Corn Silage seninmccc see iccdter cs cere total} 19 | 0.8 12.8 | 6.0 1:10.6 
Millet ‘* (Japanese)..................tolal gi 13.6 | 75 1°136 
Corn and Soy Bean Silage....... ..-tolal| 25 08 111 | te Upste i 
Millet (Jap.) and Soy Bean Silage..... /ota/l 2.8 7.2 | 7.2 | 1 :6.0 
190 lbs. Millet and Soy Bean Sila«e, furnish} 2.8 Ibs. 1.0 Ibs 14.4 Ibs 
Nore.—The standard above calls for digestible nutrients in the quantities given : 
the compositions given show total nutrients. 
+ Nutritive ratio, is ratio between total digestible nitrogen containing (protein), and total digestible carbon containing (carbohydrates), substances. 
