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 fodder crops, but ripening the 

 seed as far north as Massachusetts. 

 The}- 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'/i 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 y z inch to 2>£ inch lengths. They 

 are soil enrichers, gathering nitro- 

 gen from the air in the same man- 

 ner as clover, the roots being crowded 

 with tubercles, which give them this 

 power. 15c. lb.; $1.00 pk.; $3.50 bu. 



LATE. — Being nearly a month later than 

 the early variety offered above should not be 

 used north of Virginia. $1. pk.; $3. bu. 



THE " HENDERSON " ENSILAGE COMBINATION. 



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- 



?lete 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, econom- 

 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. The 

 combination ensilage develops a most agreeable 

 aromatic 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 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 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. 



Wm. P. Brooks, Professor of Agriculture, Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, writes Nov. 25U1, /SgS. 



"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 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 (carbohydrates 

 and fat), called for by the standard, is 1:5.7. In the millet and 

 soy bean silage, it is 1:6.0. In our experience, 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 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 eariy milk ; 

 the bean, when the pods are all nearly filled, but before the seed 

 begins to harden." 





PROTEIN. 



FAT. 



CARBOHYDRATES. 



t NUTRITIVE 





EXTRACT MATTER. CRUDE FIBRE. 



RATIO. 



Standard for cow (1,000 lbs. live weight 1. 



2.5 lbs. 

 per cent. 



1.9 



1.7 



2.5 



2.8 

 2.8 lbs. 



0.5 lbs. 

 per cent. 



0.8 



08 



08 



1.0 

 1.0 lbs. 



13.0 lbs. 



1 -5.7 



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 



per cent. 

 12.8 

 13.6 

 11.1 

 7.2 



14.4 



per cent 

 6.0 



7.5 

 7.2 

 7.2 

 lbs. 



1:10.6 



1 13.6 

 1:8.1 

 1 :6.0 



Note. — The standard above calls for digestible nutrients in the quantities given : the compositions given show total nutrients. 



t Nutritive ratio, is ratio between total digestible nitrogen containing (protein), and total digestible carbon containing (carbohydrates), substance*. 



