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From PETER HEBJDERSOH <& CO., HEW YORK 



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EARLY GREEN SOJA OR SOY BEANS 



Valuable Either for 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 vvith 



Japanese Millet and Fodder Corn) For Ensilage, Supplying the Albuminoids or FleslvForming 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 corn 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 6upplied 

 by feeding, in addition to the corn silage, such grain as oats, wheat, 

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

 modity, 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 and 

 Japanese Millet, grow on his own farm, at small cost, a combination 

 which furnishes a wholesome, economical and completely balanced 

 feed for milch cows. This combination should be composed of two 

 parts millet or corn to one part Soja Beans, grown separately, but mixed 

 thoroughly, at the time of cutting and filling of the silo* This combina- 

 tion 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 Millet, 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\^ feet apart, 6 to 8 plants to the foot of row. re- 

 quiring 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 ' 2-inch to 2 1 o-ineh 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 engraving.) 



Price, 20c. per lb.; $2.50 per peck; $9.00 per bushel, 60 lbs.; 10- 

 bushel lots, $8.90 per bushel. 



VELVET BEAN ( 



MUCUNA\ 

 UTILIS ) 



VELVET BEAN (Mucuna utilis.) A rank growing leguminous vine, 

 attaining a length of 10 to 40 feet and densely covering the ground. As 

 a green manuring and forage crop it is of great value in the South and 

 in tropical countries. No other forage crop makes such enormous 

 growth in such a short time. On the sandy lands of Florida it averages 

 5,000 pounds of cured forage per acre, while on richer soils in Alabama 

 the weight is often over 8,000 pounds per acre. The crop may be used 

 as green forage, pastured or cured into hay, for which purpose it should 

 be cut when in full flower or before the pods get large. The feeding 

 value is high, as nutritious as Cow Peas, or Clover. Cattle and hogs 

 thrive especially well on it. As a soil enricher the Velvet Bean crop 



is not surpassed. It gathers nitrogen from the atmosphere, and when 

 the crop — or at least the roots and stubble — is turned under, this 

 expensive element in fertilizers is added to the soil, which with the humus 

 added from the decayed crop, increases the fertility of the land, putting 

 it in fine condition for the succeeding crop. No fertilizer containing 

 nitrogen need be used to grow Velvet Beans, but if the soil is poor an 

 application of about 250 pounds of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of 

 muriate of potash per acre would be beneficial. Plant the seed a few 

 inches apart in rows 4 feet apart, requiring about 1 bushel of seed per 

 acre. 



Price, $2.50 per peck, $9.00 bushel of 60 lbs. 



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



