.★ SOY BEANS ★ 
yioffman's 
SOY 
BEANS 
A MOST important soiling crop. Also supplies high-protein 
feed. Soy Beans fill in those unexpected gaps when drought 
or unseasonable weather reduces the hay yield. 
Be sure to drill the seed shallow. Many failures resulted 
from too deep-drilled seed. Don’t plant too early! Soy Bean 
Seed should be inoculated. If not inoculated the crop may 
take more value out of the soil than it puts into it. 
Soy Beans do well in fertile soils that are well-drained 
and where the seed bed has been carefully prepared. If the 
soil is sour, it should be limed. Soys grow fast. Hardy and 
strong, quite free from disease. Do not plant Soy Beans 
until after corn-planting time. The ground must be warm. 
Some farmers plant Soy Beans with corn. Others plant 
the two crops in separate fields and then mix as put into 
the silo. Many plow down the entire crop as a soil builder 
<<WILSON BLACK’’ SOY BEANS 
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The favorite Soy Bean among Eastern farmers—better liked 
each year as a general-purpose variety. It is one of the 
best for hay and bean production and for the silo. On ac¬ 
count of its wonderful growth and slender stems and 
branches, the "Wilson Black” variety makes the finest hay. 
On poor ground "Wilson Blacks” will grow four feet tall, 
and on fertile ground they will get as tall as six feet. We 
think Wilsons will make a little more hay, and hay of a 
little better quality than other varieties. This variety is 
early enough to mature beans in Southern parts of Penn¬ 
sylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and States to the South. The 
Wilsons will do well on poor soils. We would give it good 
soil to produce forage—poor soil to produce beans. The 
Wilson is a medium size, jet-black bean. Will easily yield 20 
bushels of beans per acre—yield above 30 
bushels per acre have been secured. Begin- 
^ - ners not sure as to the variety they should 
start will do well to choose on the "Wilson 
Blacks.” It is a great variety for hay, forage, 
soiling, and green manuring. See Price List. 
Harry Loose, Menges Mills, York County, Pa. (Photo 
left), reported: "I used Hoffman's Seeds for 30 years, 
I liked them, and had good results. Hoffman's were 
always very fair and just in all their dealings with me." 
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