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STANDARD SEED COMPANY 
SOY BEANS 
give quick results in soil improvement 
For soil improvement, where quick results are wanted, the Soy Bean 
is the most useful legume crop. In order to add nitrogen to the soil it 
must, of course, be inoculated; otherwise, it impoverishes the soil even 
more rapidly than corn. However, if inoculated with the right bacteria, 
it produces in a single season a large, spreading root system covered with 
big nodules. 
Soy Beans fit into the rotation as a cultivated crop, a grain crop or a 
hay crop. As a cultivated crop, they are usually grown with corn, this 
combination making it possible to grow a legume for soil improvement on 
every acre every year, the corn and Soy Beans being followed by small 
grain with clover. 
A FIELD OF SOY BEANS 
Preparing and Seeding SOY BEANS 
It is not safe to sow until the 
same time or a little later than 
corn. If seeded with corn, but sown 
separately, figure on sowing 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 broadcast. 
If grain drill is used, some of 
the spouts may be stopped up, the 
number of spouts closed depending 
on the desired space between rows; 
and this again depends upon the 
kind of equipment available for cul¬ 
tivation. 
Soy Beans Make Excellent Hay 
Soy Beans are generally grown 
alone for hay. Seed solid or In 
rows. They are usually cut with a 
mowing machine about the time 
the pods begin to fill. After this. 
they are left on the ground until 
wilted, then raked up and placed 
in tall, loose cocks for about a 
week. 
