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COW PEAS 
Improve the Soil. 
Fine Fodder. 
Excellent Ensilage. 
Proof against Chinch Bugs. 
Cow Peas belong to the same family as clover and taking the nitrogen from the air they have the same 
ability to improve the soil. The decaying roots and stems add to the soil and the whole vine can be plowed 
under for fertilizer. 
Cow Peas have many uses. They make fairly good human food, they make good pasture, can be fed 
green, make fine hay, make excellent ensilage especially when grown with corn, and improve the soil at 
the same time. 
Cow Peas are very easily planted and easily grown. They are tender, however, and should not be 
Elanted until the ground is thoroughly warm. For fertilizer, pasture, or hay crop they should be planted 
roadcast or better still drilled in with a grain drill planting about a bushel of seed to the acre. If they 
are being raised for seed they should be planted in rows about thirty-six inches apart and cultivated two 
or three times. 
Cow Peas will grow on almost any soil and they are valuable for planting on thin land as they will 
make a good crop and also improve the soil. 
Cow Peas are generally planted either broadcast or in drills by themselves and can be planted on wheat 
land after the wheat is taken off. Another common practice is to plant Cow Peas in between the rows 
of corn after the corn is laid by. It is rather difficult to cut the Peas and Corn when planted in this manner 
and the Cow Peas are therefore generally pastured off in the fall. 
The very best forage or ensilage is obtained by planting corn and Cow Peas together in the row. This 
should be done at late corn planting time when the soil is good and warm. The corn should be about 12 
to 14 inches apart in the row and the Cow Peas 4 to 6 inches. This can then be cut with a binder. 
Chinch Bugs will not eat Cow Peas. They will starve to death in a field of it. The Whip-poor-will 
and the New Era are the common varieties and the New Era is especially recommended for Kansas. 
We carry the following varieties: 
NEW ERA..." ....Lb. 10c 
WHIP-POOR-WILL Lb. 10c 
SOY BEANS 
The Soy Bean is a legume, and in nutritive value is equal to 
red clover. As a soil improver, it is excellent. This plant will 
grow on a wide variety of soils, but the richer the soil the larger 
the yield of forage. Prepare the soil the same as for corn. Drill 
the Soy Beans in, from three pecks to a bushel and a half of seed 
per acre, after corn planting time. The heavier seeding is where 
the crop is grown for hay or pasture. A common drill can be used 
with the oat feed opened, and enough of the holes stopped up to 
give the proper distance between rows. 
Cultivate the Soy Beans with a weeder before they come up. 
When the rows are wide enough apart, use the cultivator. When 
the crop is grown for seed, several cultivations should be given. 
Harvest Soy Beans intended for hay as soon as the pods begin 
to form; for silage, leave the plants come as near maturity as pos- 
sible without dropping their leaves. Put in the silo with corn. 
When intended for seed, harvest before the beans are mature or 
they will shatter badly. Handle when the dew is on. 
Use an ordinary mowing machine with a side delivery attach- 
ment except where intended for silage, when the self-binder makes 
the best implement, the bound bundles being easy to handle. 
For hay, handle as little as possible. Leave in the swath one or 
two days, then put in small cocks until cured. For threshing the 
seed, use ordinary threshing machine with blank concaves. 
Soy Beans, as feed, takes the place of oil or gluten meal. Feeding 
them to milch cows, fattening hogs or cows, they have given astonish- 
ing results. If sown broadcast use one-half to one bushel per acre. 
We have the early Yellow, Late Mammoth; this last variety, how- 
ever, hardly ever matures North, but is all right for the Southern 
States. 
SOY BEANS 
EARLY YELLOW SOY BEANS... 
LATE MAMMOTH SOY BEANS . 
.Lb. 
;Lb. 
10c 
10c 
FIELD BEANS 
WHITE NAVY. The standard white beans of medium size. Plant in drills so as to cultivate with 
a horse, 25 to 30 pounds enough to sow an acre Lb 20c 
Get our prices on large quantities. 
CASTOR BEANS. Are largely grown in our State, and have paid well the past few years Will 
do well on any good corn land. One bushel plants fifteen acres. <; . Lb. 20c 
FIELD PEAS 
CULTURE. Field Peas deserve more general cultivation. They are equal to corn in fattening hogs 
and are ready for feed several weeks earlier. Can be sown advantageously with oats or will do well alone 
As a land fertilizer they are very beneficial. For such the crop should be plowed under when they begin 
to bloom. They will grow on most any kind of land. 
WHITE SEEDED GOLDEN VINE Lb 10c 
GREEN SEEDED CANADA I I ...].. I ......... . ^Lb! 15c 
Ask for market prices on large quantities. 
uantifi dB 8 ° at parcel post rates - Allow 5c P er lb - for small lots and regular parcel post charges for larger 
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