SSI 
SOY BEANS 
Soy Beans are now recognized as one of the most profitable crops that 
can be grown, especially in the Corn Belt. Generally speaking, they 
require about the same temperature as corn. Being legumes, they are 
wonderful soil improvers; they may be used either as a hay crop, pasture 
crop, soiling crop, or for the beans. Under favorable conditions Soy 
Beans will produce 12 tons per acre of fresh fodder, rich in protein and 
fat, which makes an excellent forage to mix in.with fodder corn. Will 
frequently produce 25 to 40 bushels per acre of the richest possible 
foodstuffs where grown for seed, and it is claimed that butter is more 
finely flavored when the cows are fed the ground beans. Very drought 
resistant and produce an abundance of nutritious feed when pastures 
are brown and dry. 
Soy Beans make a good growth on poor soils, especially if inoculated; 
succeed on acid soil where clover and alfalfa will not do; will grow as 
far north and south as corn and cotton; they are a splendid rotation 
crop, either short or whole season; they are equal pound for pound to 
oil meal in feeding value; they build up the soil and are a splendid 
green manure crop; they may be cut for hay any time after the pods 
begin to form. Many of our customers grow Soy Beans with their corn, 
planting them at the same time. This gives them 
two crops at harvest time or they let the sheep or 
hogs in to feed on the beans. Sow 45 lbs. in drills 
per acre, or 2 bu. (120 lbs.) broadcast. 
Prepare the seed bed the same as for corn, by fall or early 
spring- plowing, followed by disking and 2 or 3 harrowings to 
check weed growth and to prepare a warm compact seed bed. 
Sow the seed with your corn, or a little later. If seeded with 
the corn, go over the rows twice with the corn planter, once 
for the corn, and once for the Soy Beans, planting one Soy 
Bean grain for each grain of corn. When grown alone, Soy 
Beans may be sown with a grain drill or corn planter, or broad¬ 
casted. A corn planter however will insure a uniform depth of 
covering, which is important. On good soils, it is well to sow 
in rows to permit cultivation and on poor soils or when grown 
only for green manure, sow them solid with the grain drill or 
broadcast them. Sow them 1 to 2 in. deep. Cut for hay when 
(he pods begin to fill, leave on the ground until wilted, then 
rake up and place in tall, loose cocks for about a week. 
Manchu 
Soy 
Beans 
INOCULATE 
THIS SEED 
WITH 
HBMOGERM 
MEDIUM YELLOW 
Popular throughout the Central States. Is quite early and 
produces a heavy crop of beans, which makes it desirable. 4302 
—Lb., 25c; 5 lbs., 5Se, postpaid to 4th zone. Not prepaid: 5 lbs., 
30c; 30 lbs., 95c; (50 lbs. (bu.), $1.70; 100 lbs., $2.85; 500 lbs., 
$13.75. Bags extra, see below. 
MANCHU 
This is by far the most popular Soy Bean in the middle west. It 
is a medium early variety, and it matures dry beans in about 100 
days. The Manchu is considered to be the best of all Soy Beans. 
Seeds are yellow with a peculiar black seed scar. It is a medium 
variety, originally from Northern Manchuria, and is very pro¬ 
ductive. The Wisconsin Experimental Station recommends it. 
4309—Lb., 25c; 5 lbs., 55c, postpaid to 4th zone. Not prepaid: 
5 lbs., 27c; 30 lbs., OOc; 60 lbs. (bu.), $1.65; 100 lbs., $2.75; 500 lbs., 
$13.25. Bags extra: % bu. size at 15c; bu. size at 210c; 2% bu. 
new grain bags at 45c; 2% bu. used bags at 30c each. 
ILLINI SOY BEANS 
Illini is a valuable variety, developed by the Illinois Experi¬ 
ment Station, and a fine bean for Wisconsin and similar lati¬ 
tudes, as well as more southern sections. It is very early, it 
yields heavily and grows a heavily leaved plant. Makes a fine 
quality hay. 43 1 I—Ll>., 25c; 5 lbs., 53c, postpaid to 4th zone. 
Not prepaid: 5 lbs., 25c; 30 lbs., 88c; (50 lbs., (bu.), $1.60; 100 lbs., 
$2.65; 500 lbs., $12.75. Bags extra: % bu. size at 15c; bu. size 
at 20c; 2f4 bu. new grain bags at 45c; 2 J /2 bu. used bags at 3(>c. 
FIELD PEAS 
YELLOW CANADA FIELD 
INOCULATE THIS 
SEED WITH 
HUMOGERM 
A variety of field peas grown throughout the north and 
northwest, also in Canada, a strain so hardy that they do well 
on any soil suitable for oats or spring wheat. Plowed under 
as a fertilizer, they rank next to Red Clover. They can be 
grown alone for fodder purposes and green manure, but for a 
dairy feed it is more profitable to mix them with oats, rye or 
barley, and to cut for hay when the oats are heading out. Hay 
is of the finest quality, and cattle, horses and sheep thrive on it. 
Can be sown with oats at the rate of 1% bushels of peas and 
2 bushels of oats for a double crop and threshing at one time 
and separating with a cleaner. 60 lbs. in one bushel. 
Drill the peas in 4 inches deep, as early as the ground can be 
worked, and then, 2 weeks later, drill in the oats crosswise. 
4654— Superior: Lb., 24c; peck, $1.48, postpaid to 4th zone. 
Not prepaid: Peek, 85c; y 2 bu., $1.60; bu., $3.00; 2% bu., $7.45; 
5 bu., $14.75; 10 bu., $29.00. Bags extra: % bu. size at 15c; bu. 
size at 20c; 2% bu. new grain bags at 45c; 2>/» bu. used at 30c. 
4655— Radium. Lb., 25c; peck, $1.53, postpaid to 4th zone. 
Not prepaid: Peck. 90c; V> bu.. $1.70: bu., $3.15; 2% bu., $7.80; 
5 bu.. $15 50; IQ bu.. $30.50. Bags extra, see above. 
154 P,ease send prices on your Early Six Weeks Potatoes. I don’t think they can 
be beat.—Mr. Ray Fox, R. D. 1, Williamsport, Indiana. 
John A.Salzer Seed Co 
LACROSSE. WISCONSIN 
