The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
901 
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Value of Soy Beans 
A dvantages of the crop.—T he growing of 
Soy beans possesses a peculiar value to any 
farm running a rotation, and to one which employs 
help the year ’round. Its seeding time follows the 
busy time of planting corn. Its early harvest time, 
end of August or early September, fits well with 
sowing of wheat, for the latter is drilled in right 
on the heels of the Soy bean binder. If there is not 
enough help to sandwich the crops as 
above. aS'On this farm in Central Illi¬ 
nois. an earlier maturing variety may 
be used, viz., the Early Brown, I to San 
or Medium Yellow. The favorite here 
has been the Mongol, and the only 
objection to it is its late maturing. 
A. K. is becoming a close second in 
estimation, as it matures a little ear¬ 
lier. TIollybrook is similar to Mongol. 
WHEAT FOLLOWS SOY BEANS.— 
With the number of men, six to 10. 
who are kept all the time, there is no 
trouble in harvesting the bean crop and 
having the wheat drill follow in the 
very tracks and on the heels of the 
Soy bean harvester. The wheat sow¬ 
ing literally follows this closely. The 
beau crop leaves the soil in good phy¬ 
sical condition, and no plowing is 
necessary—not often do we even disk. 
The farm feels the value of these four 
good points: 
1. The crop follows close on corn 
planting. 
2. It is harvested just before wheat 
drilling time. 
3. If leaves the ground ready for 
wheat. 
4. Tt has done the heavy Fall plow¬ 
ing, or no Fall plowing for wheat is 
necessary. 
VALUABLE QUALITIES.—In addi¬ 
tion to these points, others may be 
added. As a crop it is more resistant 
to moisture extremes than other 
legumes; it is a good substitute for 
clover when it fails; it ranks with 
flax and cottonseed meal as concen¬ 
trates: it gathers nitrogen for soil im¬ 
provement; it may be grown upon a 
soil too acid for clover; it fits well 
into rotation as carried on here, viz., 
corn. Soy beans, wheat and clover. Its 
bay is equal to or superior to Alfalfa. 
STOCK LIKES IT.—As to the last 
point, our stock all like the hay— 
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. Our 
mows have been growing in size year 
after year. Tt follows we are feeding 
it more and more, as our amount of 
stock is increasing yearly. So the 
acreage of Soy beans grown has in¬ 
creased from 70 acres four or five years 
ago to 170 in 1010. Even the hulltngs 
(the bean vines and pods left after 
thrashing out the beans for seed) are 
valuable. We have stock eating the 
ballings and growing fat thereon with 
little or no corn. We prefer the hull- 
ings to Timothy. 
HOOD HAY IN RAINY WEATHER. 
—If the crop becomes soaked while 
curing in the field it is less injured 
than clover, Alfalfa or Timothy would 
be under the same conditions. We had 
tons lie on the ground six weeks, a 
year ago, which was a rainy time. We 
worried considerably over it then; but 
h M»ld for $25 per baled ton in the field, so now, 
'•dn or shine, it gives us no anxiety. 
A A AFFABLE CROC.—For a number of years 
S '•' '* eaus as seed have had a ready sale from this 
HOGGING DOWN.—This farm regards the Soy 
bean at its greatest value when grown in conjunction 
with corn for hogging down. For several years, 
except 1010. very little husking has been done here. 
1 he four-footed buskers have cleaned up the corn 
and bean fields. While on this feed the hogs need 
i.» to NO per cent less tankage, as has been proven 
in our own experience. We make use most often of 
200 miles) was saved. The corn was used where 
it grew, the manure scattered with no labor; in 
short, the crop went direct to consumer. In 101,s 
we had 285 acres of corn and Soy beans; 150 acres 
of this was eaten down in the field before the 
December snows flew. We husked 50 acres. The 
other 35 went into the silos. Horses, cattle and 
hogs devoured it fast as they were fed. In 1010 we 
had 200 acres in corn and Soy beans. 
On account of the uncertainty of mar¬ 
kets and prices we bandied only 120 
hogs instead of 2.500. as we had been 
doing in the course of a year, so we 
husked all: the sheep, cattle and horses 
cleaned up the fodder. j. w. m. 
Tolono, Ill. 
Rolling the I,‘oiuls in a Snoicy Country. Fig. 2)9 
Hunting a Loud of Fggplunts from the Field. Fig. 250. (Sec page 906) 
A Red of Spring Tulips in Full Bloom. Fig. 251. (Sec page 90S) 
Southern hogs. They are big and little, plump and 
scrawny, all sorts and sizes. We fence oft’ 10 to 20 
laeres at a time, and turn them in. i. e.. after they 
* - - -• - —.- uve “acclimated to Ibis good feed, which is another 
•'I'ii- In 101,S we sold 1,000 bushels and put about story. They grow and fatten rapidly, and in a 
~ ' to " s of ,ia - v in M ie barn. Our acreage was 125 short time are ready for a new 10 to 20 acres. By 
bu.M i° ai ' 1,1 f,om 150 aoreSi we sold 2,100 having cattle in with the hogs the fodder is eaten 
pl-mr \ 01 'r , that ’ Uli,1US 200 saved from our own up closer than with hogs alone. In 1015. 80 acres 
•ili w ' r * are ,uau . v beans and culls of corn and Soy beaus were hogged down. The next 
fo/tV ? n ! U , 8 th ° Cr ° P for seed - These are valuable year the manager. W. E. Riegel. estimated the corn 
li dl\ U ' S M ^" lee<kr I'lasi also soaked and par- at 45 bushels per acre, ami the beans seven. In 1017 
flock , fT'r* 1 !UUl fe ' 1 W<mi1, tlu ‘ se culls k °l>t our the acreage advanced to 140. The crop was divided 
food tL 1 ; ,yills rhe Wiuter through. As human between the silos and hogging down. That long. 
bard siege busking (which we consider costs 
rue winter through. As luunai 
time | tlU Sl . > '' ' * S 1 ' 1 * 1 am * Palatable, but long- uam siege nusKiug i which we consider costs l 
sure eookiih' 1 * 011 ^ uect ' >bai ^ r ’ exce Pt in steam pres- cents a bushel i • husk, shell and put in the self 
feeder, and In to 22 cents to husk, shell and ship 
Blue Grass Pasture in Ohio 
IVT ATUREkS BALANCED RATION. 
* —-A good Blue grass pasture is 
Natures self-feeder. Blue grass comes 
on early in the Spring, and furnishes 
luscious eating for young pigs and 
calves, as well as any other kind of 
li' e stock. It suffers less from drought 
than the clovers, and when well estab¬ 
lished will come on annually, and as 
near as experts can find out it is the 
closest thing to a balanced ration. Old 
fence rows generally have a heavy 
stand of Blue grass, and it is not un¬ 
common to see live stock, when turned 
into a field of inferior pasture first to 
thoroughly clean up the Blue grass in 
the fence rows. However. Blue grass 
may be grown and fertilized in the 
same manner as any other farm crop, 
and it would seem that farmers who 
have considerable hilly land, or land 
lh.it is rather unprofitable for ordinary 
agricultural operations, should convert 
these lands into good pastures. 
SEEDING.—In our experience, the 
easiest way to produce a good Blue 
grass sod is to begin when the land is 
in wheat. AYe generally apply from 
one to two tons of limestone per acre, 
and then put on from 200 to 300 lbs. 
of acid phosphate. The effect of this 
liming and fertilization is always seen 
in the wheat, but particularly in the 
grass seeding that is made in the 
Spiing following the wheat sowing. 
The grass seeding in the Spring is 
made up of 5 lbs. of Blue grass. 3 IDs. 
of Alsike clover and sometimes some 
Red-top, Alfalfa or White clover is 
added, so as to make from 10 to 15 lbs. 
of grass seed to the acre. After the 
wheat is removed we find that from 
such a seeding a good thick stand of 
grass comes on, and this may be pas¬ 
tured some during the latter part of 
Summer or early Fall, if not heavily 
pastured so that the growth is depleted 
before Winter. By the next season the 
Blue grass will have a heavier stand, 
and as the other grasses slowly lose out 
il will fill in and make a good sward 
for all kinds of live stock. On land 
that has not been growing Blue grass 
nor has a natural supply of limestone, 
it may be hard to maintain a Blue 
grass pasture at first. We feel that 
we can secure our best results by care¬ 
ful fertilizing and manuring such pas¬ 
tures after it has been started. During the late 
Fall and before freezing begins we generally top- 
dress our Blue grass pastures with acid phosphate, 
at the rate of 200 to 300 lbs.-per acre: or. if this is 
hot done in the Fall, we believe that it will give the 
grass a good start when applied in the following 
Spring. 
MANl RING.—To manure a Blue grass pasture 
we use a common manure spreader and apply the 
manure at the rate of about five to seven tons per 
acre. It is a good plan to put this on in the Fall, 
as it protects the pastures during Winter and Spring. 
The manure will be incorporated in the grass, so 
that live stock will not refrain from eating the grass 
readily. If manure is applied during the grazing 
season cattle will mince over the manured part and 
