0T HE; RXJRAE, NEW-YORKER 
261 
1913. 
handling the soy bean crop. 
An article on page 78 by J. O. Loftin, 
has been called to my attention. Mr. 
Loftin has had so much more trouble 
with the Soys than we have had, or than 
our correspondents have had, that we 
cannot help feeding that he has headed 
in wrong some way. He says, “We find 
it almost impossible to cure it when 
cut for hay, and to save the seed ex¬ 
cept in small quantities is almost im¬ 
possible, and no kind of stock will touch 
the straw as feed.” 
On the first point I admit considerable 
ignorance, because I have never hap¬ 
pened to need the Soys for hay, and 
have never made an effort to cure them 
as such. I would expect some difficulty 
in doing this, about the same probably 
as is experienced in making cow pea 
hay. On the second point Mr. Loftin 
is “away off.” We harvested the seed 
this year from 175 acres, and lost none 
at all to speak of, either from shattering 
or from mould after harvesting or 
thrashing, and we have received prob¬ 
ably an average of three letters a week 
all Fall and Winter from other people 
who have harvested from 50 to 1,000 
bushels of seed this year, and not one 
of them has made any complaint at all 
about loss from shattering. 
The Medium Green Soy is very diffi¬ 
cult to harvest and prevent loss from 
shattering. We have had no experience 
with the Mammoth Yellow, which Mr. 
Loftin grows, as it will not ripen seed 
in this latitude; but the varieties which 
we are familiar with, Wing’s Mikado, 
Wing’s Mongol, Wing’s Sable, Jet, Pe¬ 
king, Ito San, as well as probably 25 
others that we have tested experiment¬ 
ally, give us no trouble from shattering. 
I am also compelled to disagree with 
Mr. Loftin that no kind of stock will 
eat the straw as feed. We do not starve 
any of cur stock, but for several seasons 
now we have fed the straw from these 
varieties during the Winter, and both 
cattle and sheep, the only stock that 
we happened to have that we needed to 
feed, have apparently done as well as on 
clover hay. We have right now 50 dairy 
cows eating this straw and doing quite 
nicely. Part of these cows we pur¬ 
chased this Fall from a neighbor who 
fed clover hay last Winter and just 
the same grain ration that we are feed¬ 
ing. They are giving us just about the 
same results that they gave him. 
I think possibly Mr. Loftin’s trouble 
in handling the seed comes from his not 
knowing how to handle thf* crop. We 
have so little trouble ourselves that we 
never dreamed it possible that a man 
could find it as difficult as Mr. Loftin 
seems to do. We wait until the soys 
are moderately ripe, that is, when the 
pods on about half of the plants are 
brown, before we begin cutting. If we 
did not have such a large acreage we 
would probably let it get a little riper 
yet than this. Then we cut, using a 
McCormick self-rake, which drops 
them off in little bunches, a good fork¬ 
ful to a place. We let them lie in 
these bunches one or two days, and 
then shock in small shocks. We leave 
them in these shocks probably 10 days or 
two weeks, and then either stack them 
or put them into the barn. Sometimes 
we can thrash right out of the shock 
with good results, but we do not want 
to take chances, and if we are not ready 
to thrash and counting on good weather, 
we either stack or put into the barn. 
They require at least a month to go 
through the sweat before stacking or 
putting into the barn, after which time 
they can be thrashed with perfect safe¬ 
ty, and we think no danger whatever 
of spoiling. We simply leave them in 
the sacks for a week, and do not even 
think it necessary to provide any par¬ 
ticular ventilation, and think that after 
they have gone clear through the sweat 
there is practically no danger at all of 
their spoiling. 
As already stated, I have not grown 
the Mammoth Yellow for seed, and 
this variety may be peculiar in some 
way, but I do know that even with this 
variety growers throughout the South¬ 
ern States very frequently harvest over 
a thousand bushels, and the seed looks 
well and germinates perfectly. I do not 
know anything about this variety’s habit 
of shattering; it may be worse than 
the varieties we are used to, but with 
our varieties we have no difficulty what¬ 
ever. 
Mr. Loftin’s statement that if they 
are not thrashed as soon as cut the 
pods burst and the seed is afl lost, would 
be absolutely wrong as far as the varie¬ 
ties we grow are concerned. I really 
believe that if Mr. Loftin will cut his 
beans with a self-rake, will shock them, 
and later on stack them, he will have 
no trouble with his seed spoiling. I 
would expect any seed, no matter how 
dry or mature it seemed to be, to have 
trouble if thrashed as soon as cut, the 
way he says he is dome. 
Ohio. CHAS. B. WING. 
Improving Cranberry Bog. 
I have got about two acres of muck 
ground; it has been a cranberry marsh until 
two years ago. Last year I plowed some 
and put on corn, but the corn only got 
from a foot to three feet high. I would like 
to know what was the cause and what 
would be the best fertilizer to use on it. 
I didn’t use any fertilizer last Spring. 
Would lime be a good thing to use and how 
much of fertilizer and lime to the acre? 
H. H. R. 
The old cranberry bog is probably very 
sour and we think this is the trouble. As 
a rule such a marsh is naturally rich in 
plant food, but so sour that most cultivated 
crops cannot grow. We should use at least 
one ton of burned lime per acre after 
plowing. After this liming 500 pounds per 
acre of a mixture of three parts fine bone 
to one of muriate of potash ought to make¬ 
good corn. 
Alfalfa on Poor Land. 
I have some land that is not of much 
account; would Alfalfa do any good on 
such land if properly plowed? State how 
much seed to an acre and how much fertili¬ 
zer is required and lime. I think the land 
is quite sour. The land is a little wet 
but I think could be drained. H. M. 
North East, Pa. 
This would be no place to sow Alfalfa. 
That crop requires the best soil on your 
farm and will pay well on it. No use 
trying to use Alfalfa as you would rye 
or buckwheat. These crops may make a 
fair growth on these poor places but Al¬ 
falfa and the clovers must have good soil 
and the best of care. A wet place is the 
worst location for Alfalfa. 
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