Nitrogen 
GATHERING 
Nodules 
ON THESE 
Soja Bean 
ROOTS 
Like other legu- | 
minous plants the — 
Soja Bean has the 
power of drawing 
nitrogen from the 
Vy air, and storing it 
wf in nodules on its | 
roots. k 
Think of the 
enormous fertiliz- 
ing power that the | 
untold millions of 
those nodules un- 
* derlying a crop of 
soja beans—impart 
to the land. 
FIELD OF EARLY SOJA BEANS AT CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM, OTTAWA, CANADA 
Early Green Soja or Soy Beans 
“+ + Waluable for Either = -- =» | PRODUCES ENORMOUS CROPS as far North as Canada 
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A ‘GREAT SOIL ENRICHER’) SPECIALLY VALUABLE “x gpntosten nh feces FOR Eola 
Gathering Nitrogen from the Air .*. -*. | .. 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 
dairy industry of the United States. We do not recommend the 
feeding of this combination to the entire exclusion of grain or other 
be of value in the Northern States. This early green variety has | concentrated feed. We recommend that grain be fed occasionally 
proved its earliness and value in the Northern States by not only | as a change, but four-fifths of the grain bill can be saved. We 
producing large fodder crops, but ripening the seed as far north as , recommend all farmers to plant this year at least an acre or two of 
Massachusetts. It is worthy of a place on every farm, either as a | our early Green Soja Beans and an equal area of Japanese Millet, to 
grain crop or fodder crop to feed green, or for the silo. The grain | test and prove for themselves the value of the combination, and we 
is the richest known vegetable substance, and when ground and fed | are confident that, thereafter, all who try it will each year grow a 
to cattle gives a milk richer and better than cotton seed or other meal. | larger acreage. Planted the latter part of May, in latitude of New 
For Ensilage it forms a Complete, Balanced Feed Ration. York, the Beans are ready for harvesting in about 100 days. Japanese 
While corn is the most serviceable crop for ensilage, though ever | Millet comes quicker to maturity than Soja Beans, and on the 
so well preserved as to succulence, odor and flavor, it isan incomplete | authority of Prof. W. P. Brooks, of Hatch Experiment Station, 
feed for cattle, being deficient in albuminoids or protein (the flesh | Mass., should be sown from four to five weeks later, so as to be in 
formers), as well as fat. This deficiency has hitherto been supplied | the best condition for the silo, along with the Soja Beans. Sow 
by feeding, in addition to the corn silage, such grain as oats, wheat, | the Beans from the middle to end of May, and the Millet from last 
etc., or concentrated feeds, such as meal, oil cake, or some other | week in June till first week in July; both will then be ready for silo 
commodity, rich in the elements in which corn silage is deficient. | about the end of August. 
But the American farmer can now, by the aid of the Soja or Soy Planted in rows 24% feet apart, 6 to 8 plants to the foot of row, 
Bean and Japanese Millet, grow on his own farm, at small cost, | requiring three pecks per acre, they yield 15 to 20 tons per acre of 
a combination which furnishes a wholesome, economical and com- | fodder very rich in flesh formers. For green feed, use from time 
pletely balanced feed for milch cows. This combination should | of blossoming till pods are well filled; for the silo, cut as soon as 
be composed of two parts millet or corn to one part Soja Beans, | most of the pods are well filled, and cut into 44-inch to 2!4-inch 
grown separately, but mixed thoroughly, at the time of cutting and | lengths. They are soil enrichers, gathering nitrogen from the air 
filling of the silo. This combination ensilage develops a most | same as clover, the roots being crowded with tubercles which give 
agreeable aromatic odor, and is greedily relished by cattle—both | them this power. (See cut.) 
dairy cows and fattening stock. It certainly will be generally used Price, 15c. per lb.; $1.75 per peck; $5.00 per bushel, 60 lbs.; 
by all up-to-date farmers and dairymen, and will revolutionize the |. 10-bushel lots, $4.80 per bushel. 
HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR SEEDS are procurable only from us direct—we do not supply through Dealers 
