HEHDEIRSOH^'S TESTED FAIRM SEED 



Early Green Soja or Soy Beans 



Valuable for Either 



FODDER or GRAIN 

 A GREAT SOIL ENRICHER 



• •. .•. Gathering Nitrogen from the Air ••• ••• 



PRODUCES ENORMOUS CROPS as far North as Canada 



Ripening Seed as far North as Massachusetts 



SPECIALLY VALUABLE 



(In Combination with Japanese 

 Millet and Fodder Cornj 



FOR ENSILAGE 



Supplying the Albuminoids or Flesh-Forming Food 



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 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. It is 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. 



For Ensilage it forms a Complete, Balanced Feed Ration. 



While com is the most serviceable crop for ensilage, though ever 

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

 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 com silage, such grain as oats, wheat, 

 etc., or concentrated feeds, such as meal, oil cake, or some other 

 commodity, rich in the elements in which com silage is deficient. 

 But the Ajnerican farmer can now, by the aid of the Soja or Soy 

 Bean and Japanese Millet, grow on his own farm, at small cost, 

 a combination which furnishes a wholesome, economical and com- 

 pletely balanced feed for milch cows. This combination should 

 be composed of two parts millet or com to one part Soja Beans, 

 grown separately, but mixed thoroughly, at the time of cutting and 

 filling of the silo. This combination ensilage develops a most 

 agreeable aromatic odor, and is greedily relished by cattle — both 

 dairy cows and fattening stock. It certainly will be generally used 

 by all up-to-date farmers and dairymen, and 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 

 our early Green Soja Beans and an equal area of Japanese MiUet, 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. 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]4. 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 J-2-inch to 2J^-inch 

 lengths. They are soil enrichers, gathering nitrogen from the air 

 same as clover, the roots being crowded with nodules which give 

 them this power. {See en?rnving.) 



Price, 15c. per lb.; $1.75 per peck; $5.25 per bushel, 60 lbs.; 

 10-bushel lots, $5.15 per bushel. 



Henderson's Pamphlet "ALFALFA ON NORTHERN FARMS" is Mailed Free to all Applicants 



