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"Chfoffman's 
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the best for hav 
Soy Beans will furnish cheaply, the protein you are paying 
fancy prices for in cotton-seed-meal, bran and other protein 
feeds. A sure crop, easy to grow, succeeds on most any soil- 
valuable for forage, improves the land when properly inocu- 
lated. (See directions next page.) 
(Sometimes called "Early Wilson"). The favorite Soy Bean among Eastern 
tarmcr,s— better hked each year as a general-purpose variety. It is one of 
stem, .nrl bmn.h'.^ .5^''" .^w f """""i?, ^"J^, O" =i"0""t of its wonderful growth and slender 
stems and branches, the Wilson Black ' variety makes the 
finest hay. On poor ground "Wilson Blacks" will grow four 
teet tall and on fertile ground they will get as tall as six feet 
we think Wilsons will make a little more hay, and hay of a 
httle l)cttcr quality than other varieties. This variety is early 
enough to mature beans in the Southern half of Pennsylvania 
Ohio, New Jersey and States to the South. The Wilsons will 
do well on poor soils. We would give it good soil to pro- 
duce forage— poor soil to produce beans. The Wilson is 
medium size, jet-black bean. Will easily yield 20 bu beans 
per acre— yields above 30 bu. per acre have been secured Be- 
ginners not sure as to the variety they should start will do 
well to choose on the "Wilson Blacks". It is 
for hay, forage, soiling, and green manuring. 
a great variety 
See Price List. 
This variety has been used throughout 
Pennsylvania, and especially the mid- 
western States- Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, for the past several 
seasons. As a general all-purpose bean, it has few rivals 
I he seed of the Manchu variety is of medium size, yellow in 
color, with a sort of small, dark-brown or blackish mark where 
It was fastened to the pod. A noticed trait of the Manchu is 
that It don't shatter or shell out its seed so easily as many 
other sorts. Produces seed at a heavier rate than some kinds 
l:<or forage is a valuable kind— grows tall— erect and bushy— 
the foliage well covers the plant. Is popular as a variety for 
hogging down. Matures the beans in about 110 days of nor- 
mal season. See Price List. 
^' ^owadays used more than ever. A brown, rather flat, oblong bean— suited for 
Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and Southern sections of Pennsylvania, New Jersey 
Productive of beans— makes a good forage growth. See Price List. 
This variety will not mature beans in sections north of Virginia. It 
I *i 1 grown very largelv in the South. It may be grown on soil so 
barren that other crops will die for want of fertility. "Mammoth Yellows" make a tall growth— coarser 
m Its texture than the other sorts. Valuable to plant with corn for silage, or for plowing under. 
^^Early Yellow" or "ItO San" '^'"■^ ^ yellow bean. The earliest variety on our list. 
, . . ^ This sort will produce hay of fine texture — probably 
not as great a quantity of hay as some of the slightly later kinds. Yields heavily of beans. After 
tne crop ot beans has been threshed, the straw will be equal to Clover hay in feeding value. See List. 
" ^ These beans serve well for a cover crop to turn under — also save you 
a little in their cost. They are of good quality — sound germination. 
and Ohio 
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FACTS ABOUT SOY BEANS- 
Soy Beans have a higher protein content than oil meal, pjund for pound. 
You can grow 20 to 30 bushels Soy Beans per acre on poor ground. 
One bushel Soy Beans contains as much digestible protein and as much 
tour bushels of com meal, or six bushels com and cob meal. 
Oround Soy Beans are greedily eaten by all stock, are easily digested, have 
mixed with other feed. 
digestible fat as six bushels of oats, or 
tonic effect whether fed by itself or 
Soy Bean hay cut before beans have ripened is greater in value of protein and fats than Alfalfa hay. 
AOV nejin ttfi-aur an.! ki.ll.. t 1.:.!. ul ■ i ..... .. . 
soy Bean straw and hulls, from which the ripe beans have been threshed, is equal in value of protein and fat con- 
tent to Clover hay. Fed to cows will cause an in;reased flow of milk, 
boy Beans will make two to four tons of hay per acre. 
Soy Beans cut green and packed with corn for silag&-l part Soys to 4 parts Com will make a perfect ration of 
much more value than com silage alone. 
A handful Soys fed to horses each meal will keep hair and hide in perfect condition. 
Colts, sheep and slock can be wintered on Soy Bean hay alone. 
The unthreshed vines fed to hens will bring about early and sustained winter egg production. 
Corn and Soys grown together can be hogged down with convenience and profit. 
An acre of Soys will produce as much meat as two acres of corn. 
Soys can be grown on land too poor and too acid to produce Clover. 
Soys are a l^ume and gather nitrogen from the air. Your soil will improve while producing crops of valuable 
There is nothing better to plow under for ra)id soil enrichment. 
gathered by the Soys become 
are 
feed. 
Planted in corn. Soys will aid the corn crop rather than curtail 
available to the com. 
Wheat following Soys yield 20 to 30 per cent, better thai when 
it. The nitrogen 
t follows oats. 
