LEGUMINOUS CROPS. 
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This pea may be sown with oats early in the spring; the 
product cut for hay late in June and the ground devoted to 
some other nitrogen gathering crop for the remainder of 
the season. 
From ioo to 120 pounds of seed should be used per 
acre. I think the most desirable way to cover the seed is to 
plow it under. 
the soy bean. ( Glycine hispida.) 
The Soy bean is an upright, bushy, leafy plant growing 
about 3 feet high and requiring about 100 days to mature. 
The station has grown the Early Yellow and the Me¬ 
dium Early Green. 
The bean of this plant is extremely rich in protein and 
is especially desirable for combining with corn or sugar beets 
for pork production. When utilized this way no threshing 
is required. 
The Kansas Experiment station has made some exten¬ 
sive experiments with Soy beans in combination with other 
foods (especially Kaffir-corn) for feeding pigs. The results 
are reported in Bulletin 95, and show a gain of 96 per cent, 
by the substitution of one-fifth Soy bean meal to a Kaffir- 
corn ration. 
This plant resists drouth well; the Kansas stationclaims 
it is fully equal to Kaffir-corn or sorghum in this respect. 
The Soy bean may profitably be grown under many 
ditches with scant water supply, in place of corn, especially 
if the soil is rather light and needs improving in fertility. 
The seed should be sown with .a grain or beet drill 
about the middle of May, putting the rows from 22 to 32 
inches apart. About 40 pounds of seed per acre is required. 
The yield ranges from 10 to 25 bushels per acre. The har¬ 
vesting should be done before the pods begin to turn yellow 
or great loss will ensue from the popping open of the pods. 
But one crop can be grown in one season on land devoted 
to this bean, owing to the time required to mature it. 
Land devoted to Soy beans in 1900 and planted to sugar 
beets in toot, gave as hiodi as 6 tons greater yield than ad¬ 
jacent land having no fertilizer applied. 
HAIRY VETCH. ( Vida, villoSCL .) 
Hairy Vetch is known as Sand, Winter, or Russiar 
Vetch. 
Some of the farmers of the Arkansas Valley have ex 
pressed their desire for a plant that may be sown in the fall, 
after taking a crop from the land, and make sufficient growth 
to turn under in the spring, thus adding fertility to the soil. 
