Soy Beans 
Soy or Soja Beans 
(Glycine lilnplda) 
Hemp 
CULTURE. — The soil should bo thoroughly 
prepared. Sow in April — the Kentucky Experi- 
ment Station for eight years records shows 
sowing on April 25th, one bushel to acre. 
2 Inches deep, gives best results. Best 
results are obtained with 7-inch wheat drill 
as the plants grow more uniform than 
when sown broadcast. After sowing, roll the 
land. Do not sow too thick. The best fibre 
comes from stalks about %-inch in diameter. 
Plants will begin to show in one week. Blos- 
soms in July when sown in April, cut about 
September the first, by hand, with mower or 
heavy self-raking reaper close to the ground. 
Let it lie on the ground for about a week, then 
stack; this improves the fibre, and there is less 
loss. If allowed to remain t6o long on the 
ground it is liable to sunburn and the quality 
be injured. If stacked before sufficiently dry 
it heats. From the last . of October until De- 
cember, depending on the weather, the Hemp 
Is taken from the stack and spread on the 
■ground to ret, a process which liberates the 
lint or fibre. From one to two months are 
required, depending on the weather, to make 
the Hemp ready to brake. Alternate freezing 
and thawing is ideal weather for retting. 
HEMP GROWN FOR S^ET).— Sow in river 
bottom at rate of 2 quarts to the acre, plant 
in hills and cultivate. When seed is ripe, beat 
out and clean on ordinary seed cleaner. The 
yield Is from 15 to 30' bushels to the acre. 
Kentucky River Botton Hemp Seed. 
For prices see colored pages. 
Tobacco 
The use of Soy Bqpns is constantly increasing on ac- 
count of their value as a forage and feed crop as well 
as their great fertilizing properties. They can be sown 
with cowpeas to hold the pea vines off the ground 
which thus can be cut and cured to better advantage 
for hay. They can be grown generally where corn 
can, and do equally well on light and heavy soils. 
Where a crop of Soy Beans is growing it Is nearly 
impossible for weeds to grow. For hay or fertilizer 
they should be sown from 60 to 00 pounds to the acre. 
When sown for ensilage it is better to sow in corn at 
15 to 20 pounds to the acre Sow for the shelled 
Beans, at the rate of 60 to 90 pounds to the acre, in 
drills 3% feet apart, and cultivate. For prices see 
colored pages. 
Velvet Beans 
(Dolichos multiflorus) 
Velvet Beans make a large growth of vines. They 
are equally as nutritious as the cowpeas, and are 
largely used, both for grazing and as a forage crop, 
throughout the South. The vines and roots are very 
rich in nitrogen, making it a most valuable soil- 
improving crop. The vines grow so rank that it is 
with difficulty that they can be turned under in the 
green state, and it is much better, if possible to leave 
them above ground until killed by frost, then to plow 
under in the Winter or early Spring, at which time 
they will make a heavy matted coating of vegetable 
matter which, turned under, will benefit the soil 
almost as much as heavy application of stable manure. 
These Beans should be planted In May or June, at 
the rate of lVfe pecks to the acre. In drills 5 feet 
apart. For prices sec colored pages. 
Table Cowpeas 
BLACKEYE. — Vines erect, seeds medium-sized, 
white, maturing medium late. This Pea Is recom- 
mended and grown in many sections for table use. 
For prices see colored pages. 
GALLIVANT or LADY.— This Is an old-fashioned 
Pea. which is very popular in sections where it Is 
known. The peas are small in size, of very fine 
flavor, superior in table qualities to the Blackeye. It 
Is very prolific, and a very desirable variety. It is 
known in some sections as “The Lady Pea.” For 
prices see colored pages. 
Plant a small patch of Cowpeas in your garden 
this year for your table. 
TOBACCO SEED. — Our seed is carefully grown and 
saved from the center stems only. 
CULTURE. — Sow seed in February in a plant bed, 
which has been first thoroughly burned, and is pro- 
tected with a thin cotton cloth. About the first of 
June set In rich highly fertilized ground in rows 
three and a half by three feet. Use Brent’s Hemp 
and Tohaeco Special Fertilizer. Cultivate often and 
worm and sucker as necessary. One ounce of seed 
sows fifty square yards sufficient to set two or three 
acres. 
We can offer the following varieties: 
White Burley \ 
Red Burley 
Stand-up Burley 
Yuelta de Abajo 
Big Havana 
Connecticut Seed Leaf 
Improved Yellow Pryor 
For prices see colored 
Kentucky Yellow 
One Sucker 
Big Oronoko 
Sweet Oronoko 
Improved Yellow Oronoko 
Blue Pryor 
Broad Leaf Grooch 
pages. 
FERTILIZERS 
Our two brands have given satisfaction wherever 
1 1 led. 
The use of commercial fertilizers has increased 
enormously of late years throughout the country. 
Good fertilizers are recommended by all Agricultural 
Stations. The two brands we offer we believe fill all 
requirements. 
Brent’s Tobacco Special 
For Tobacco, Hemp, and Gardens. 150 to 300 pounds 
to the acre. For prices see colored pages. 
Brent’s Grain Grower 
The use of this fertilizer will not only Increase the 
yield of the grain crops, hut will also give splendid 
results on Grass and Clover crops that follow. 
The land is improved and put in better condition 
for any crop that follows its use. Broadcast 400 to 
500 pounds to acre and harrow In; in hills or drills 
200 to 400 pounds. 
For corn, if used in hills, a handful to 2 or 3 
hills, scattering it so that the fertilizer will not come 
Into direct contact with the seed. 
For prices see colored pages. 
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