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CULTURE OF SOY BEANS. 
Concerning those Soy beans in Ohio, page 
103, what kind of feed would they make 
for hogs? Would the beans he a good 
tiling in the grain, ration for the cow? 
What quantity to the acre? g. w. s. 
Pennington, N. J. 
Soy beans make excellent bog feed; 
in fact, they are highly recommended 
for any kind of live stock. They are 
greedily eaten, and I think it would be 
wise to feed them in moderation to 
any stock that one was raising. They 
do not appear to be particularly dif¬ 
ficult to digest, and I think there is 
less real danger in feeding them than 
with most other grains with which I 
am familiar. I said that they should 
be fed. carefully, because being about 
as rich in protein as oil meal itself, 
it is obvious that unless a good deal 
of other grain and carbonaceous feed 
were fed at the same time, there would 
be an excess of protein, and, conse¬ 
quently, a waste. Some of the college 
professors recommend hogging off tiie 
beans as being the cheapest way to har¬ 
vest them, and this may be true. My 
opinion, however, is that the beans are 
entirely too valuable, too rich a feed, to 
be handled in this way; that any kind 
of stock should be given less than they 
actually care for, and other grain fed 
in connection. I think that when fed to 
anything except sheep, it would pay to 
crush them. They are rather difficult to 
grind, being so rich in oil, and it would 
be my theory that the most profitable 
way would be to crush them with a 
corn-and-cob meal grinder, mixing the 
corn in at the same time; this would 
then make a balanced ration if the 
proper proportions of each grain were 
given. I think that this would be es¬ 
pecially wise with cows, and even hogs, 
I think, would not entirely digest the 
beans unless they were somewhat 
crushed. I know of no other grain that 
will add protein in as good form as 
these beans, on account of their being 
greedily eaten and easily digested. 
The yield per acre varies, and until 
some of the new varieties become more 
generally known, I think it will be lower 
than it should be; that is, at present 
most of the varieties yield only 20 
bushels per acre, and this makes rather 
expensive grain, as the beans require 
quite careful attention and are more ex¬ 
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pensive to grow and harvest than most 
other forms of grain. I would think 
that the average cost per acre for grow¬ 
ing and harvesting them would be not 
less than $10. Some of the new varie¬ 
ties, I believe, will be very much bet¬ 
ter. I hope that some of them may 
produce 30 bushels per acre on good 
soil. 
Inoculation is absolutely essential to 
the best results with Soy beans. Very 
few soils seem to be naturally filled with 
the proper bacteria, and I, therefore, ad¬ 
vise every grower to procure soil from 
an old field that has been growing these 
forage this is a point worth consider¬ 
ing before purchasing the seed. For in¬ 
stance, the Ito San, Brownie and Early 
Black are only moderately supplied with 
foliage. The Medium Early Yellow is 
a trifle better. The Medium Early 
Green grows larger than any of the 
other named varieties; also has by far 
the largest amount of forage. Some 
of the new varieties are far superior to 
the Medium Early Green in respect to 
foliage, but as yet their seed is not for 
sale. The forage compares favorably 
with Alfalfa itself. The plants are more 
easily grown and taken care of than 
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beans. The Government inoculation fre¬ 
quently succeeds, and is sent free of 
charge, but I think soil is much bet¬ 
ter. I obtained the inoculation for our 
own farm from the experiment sta¬ 
tion at Wooster, Ohio, and as many of 
the experiment stations have been grow¬ 
ing these beans, I think it likely that 
farmers can secure soil from them in 
many of the different States. ' 
Aside from the grain value of Soy 
beans, they have a decided value as for¬ 
age. The plants are rather coarse, a 
good deal like cow peas; grow from 
one to three feet tall with the old 
varieties, while some of the new varie¬ 
ties grow six feet tall. Different varie¬ 
ties differ materially in the amount of 
foliage, and in choosing varieties for 
cow peas, and yield a larger amount 
of forage per acre; this being especially 
true, of course, with such varieties as 
the Medium Early Green. While the 
plants are somewhat coarse, they are 
very well relished by stock, either for 
pasture or for hay, and there is not 
a very large amount of waste in feed¬ 
ing them. I would think that it would 
be entirely practical to hog off the 
beans when the forage alone is wanted, 
or to pasture them with other kinds of 
Stock. CHAS. B. WING. 
March 27, 
ALFALFA OVERFLOWED ON THE 
COLUMBIA RIVER. 
On page 209, J. N. J. answers H. 
T. in regard to overflow during the 
growing season, killing Alfalfa. The 
experience of growers on the Columbia 
River might be of interest. In 1894 
the Columbia rose unusually high and 
overflowed land that was in Alfalfa. 
One field I have in mind was covered 
by the water for 20 days, and after the 
water receded the field made a crop the 
same season. The water came on the 
field in June after the first crop had 
been cut. Another field, less than a 
mile off, was under water the same 
length of time and was completely 
killed. The first field was so situated 
that there was a current to the water 
covering it. The other was covered 
with still water. In 1904 the river rose 
higher than average and overflowed land 
that had been seeded to Alfalfa a 
couple of years. The experience was 
the same as that of 1894. Where there 
was a current over the field a good 
crop was cut the same season. First 
crop was cut before the overflow in 
this case also, and where the water 
stood still the Alfalfa all died. Land 
was covered .14 days in 1904. The 
theory of persons who made some study 
of different effect was that the running 
water carried enough air to keep the 
Alfalfa alive, while the still water ex¬ 
cluded the air, and the plant died for 
lack of it. J. N. JOHNSON. 
Advertising Milk.— Our old friend, J. 
Yat.es Peek, spending the Winter in Cal¬ 
ifornia saw the turn-out pictured at 
Fig. 142 being driven about the streets 
of Los Angeles, California. It is the 
advertisement of “Lily Milk,” and this 
picture is given as a card. In Connecti¬ 
cut a milk wagon is drawn by oxen. 
That might be called the patient de¬ 
votion of brothers to more useful sis¬ 
ter. In California the sister gets more 
of the consumer’s dollar by hauling her 
own milk! 
“What can a doctor do when he gets 
a patient who neither drinks nor 
smokes?” “Tell him to stop eating cer¬ 
tain things. Everybody eats.”—Louis¬ 
ville Courier-Journal. 
Her: “Why on earth do they call him 
the paying teller?” Him: “Because 
that’s his job.” Her: “But it isn’t. I 
asked him how much you had in the 
bank, and please to give it to me, and 
he wouldn’t tell and he wouldn’t pay.” 
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