OLDS’ soy BEANS 
A Planting of Soy Beans for Hay. 
(Sow 120 pounds to an acre.) 
WHY GROW SOY BEANS? 
First. They yield large amounts of high protein forage, rich in feeding value. 
They not only make splendid hay, but are wonderful for silage, grown with corn. 
Second. ^ They contain as much fertility per acre as eight loads of stable manure. 
Third. The mature beans ground into meal make wonderful high protein dairy feed. 
Fourth. Soy beans are more resistant to frost than corn and they also' stand 
hot weather. 
Fifth. They are adapted to nearly all soils and are especially valuable on sandy 
soils. 
Sixth. They are the only legume crop that will grow on acid soils and build 
up the land. 
Seventh. They make a wonderful emergency crop when clover fails or when 
other crops are washed out or fail for any reason, as they can be put in late. 
MANCHU SOY BEANS. 
Manchu is the best known and most popular variety of soy beans in Wisconsin 
as well as in most other central west states. It is medium early in season, early 
enough to fully mature dry beans under ordinary conditions in southern Wisconsin 
and northern Illinois and large enough to be of real value. The dry beans mature 
in about 100 days. 
Prices, by freight: y 2 pk„ 30c; pk., 55c; bu. (60 lbs.), $1.65; 10 bus. at $1.62; 
25 bus. or over at $1.60. Sacks free. 
. . ILL1NI SOY BEANS. 
Illini was developed at the Illinois Experiment Station from the old A K We 
sell nearly as many Illini as Manchu. It seems to grow a little taller than 'Manchu, 
giving a heavier yield while in season it is hardly any later. Some think it is even 
earlier. Just as desirable in every other way and we would say better for hay in 
Wisconsin than Manchu. Our stocks are very fine of both varieties 
Prices, by freight: y 2 pk., 30c; pk., 50c; bu., $1.60; 10 bus. at $1.57; 25 bus. 
or over at $1.55. 
HOW TO PUT IN SOY BEANS. 
While soy beans in Wisconsin are mostly put in'for a hay crop, many 
farmers are planting with corn for silage. Mix the beans with the corn, 
planting both at the same time, using fully as many beans as kernels 
of corn, or better yet, as many pounds of beans as there are pounds 
of corn. Where the beans are sown alone by drill or seeder, which is 
the way they are largely put in, use two bushels of seed per acre but 
then even a little more than that is better. On old soils rowing and 
cultivating will make friends for the crop, putting in either with corn 
planter or with drill with part of the spouts closed. Handled this way 
there will be a great saving in the cost of the seed as one bushel per 
acre is enough instead of two bushels. On new soils the solid planting 
is all right but on old soils weeds are apt to bother. 
Do not plant too early. Never before corn planting time, or even later. 
Often as late as June ’20th is all right. Shallow covering is best and 
above all, inoculate the seed before planting. 
Field Seed prices are subject to change. 
Ask for weekly price list. 
Use Nitragin or Nodogen on this Crop. 
Mammoth Russian Sunflower 
A gieat feed for poultry and hogs. Also grown quite largely now for 
silage. Also for sheep pasture. It makes a much larger amount of feed 
than ensilage corn. Prof. E. J. Dehviche of the Ashland Experiment 
fetation, reported that sunflower greatly outyielded corn, yielding 14 4 
tons of silage per acre, corn only 4.22 tons 
Prices by mail: Oz., 5c; i/ 4 lb., 10c; i/ 2 lb., 15c; lb., 25c; 3 lbs., 70c. 
By freight: o lbs., 85c; 10 lbs., $1.50; 100 lbs ., $10.00. Sacks free. 
table ON PAGE 56 TO FIGURE POSTAGE 
REQUIRED on small lots of field seeds ordered sent 
OLDS’ SEED POTATOES 
Olds Seed Potatoes have had a national reputation for years. We 
began with nothing but* seed potatoes 51 years ago. Have made a 
specialty of them ever since. We always have a choice stock and this 
year is no exception. In fact our stock is unusually fine this year. There 
is money in potatoes if you plant the right kind of seed. Use seed that 
was grown for seed. Our seed potatoes are mostly grown on contract 
specially for seed and from select stocks. 
POTATO PRICES 
Prices now on seed potatoes are low, but we expect to see them 
advance. Good certified stock is none too plentiful. Potatoes should 
prove a profitable crop this season as usually high prices for eating 
potatoes follow a year when seed is low in price. Many growers reduce 
their acreage when they receive a low price on a crop with the result 
that the following year brings a high return for the same crop. 
CERTIFIED STOCK. Most of our potatoes are “State Certified.” 
imis means that they were inspected while growing in the field by an 
official state inspector and again in the bin after being dug and both 
times passed the necessary requirements. The stock must be free from 
mixture, free from late blight rot, black leg and powdery scab and con¬ 
form reasonably to the correct vine and tuber characteristics of the 
variety. Official branded sacks and official tags are used for this Cer¬ 
tified Stock. 
U. S. GOVERNMENT GRADE NO. 1. The stock is practically free from 
scab, blight, dry rot and damage caused by disease and graded to a 
minimum size of 1% inches. The stock is all northern grown, coming 
from the same sections as the certified stock and practically pure. 
Postpaid prices. Any variety of potatoes on our list. By mail: 
One pound (about 3 good tubers), 25c; 3 lbs., 45c. 
(Plant 8 to 12 bushels to the acre.) 
NEW EARLY POTATO 
WARBA. A new extra- 
early potato developed by the 
Minnesota Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station from a cross 
of _ select seedling and Bliss 
Triumph. It is a heavy yield- 
er, early, and resistant to 
common forms of mosaic. The 
cooking quality of the uni¬ 
form tubers is excellent. Vines 
are upright and compact. In 
earliness it is about ten days 
ahead of Triumph and Early 
Ohios. The creamy-white po¬ 
tatoes are round and blocky, 
of good size with smooth skin. 
Our seed is very fine Red 
River Valley grown. The pink 
eyes are of medium depth. 
Prices, Certified: y 2 pk., 30c; 
pk., 50c; bu., $1.50; 100 lbs., 
$2.30; 500 lbs., at $2.25 per 
100 lbs.; 1,500 lbs. at $2.20 
per 100 lbs. 
Warba. 
RED RIVER IRISH COBBLERS 
Irish Cobbler seems to continue to increase in popularity. People lik 
a white potato. It is famous now the country over. At first it wa 
largely grown for the early market by the truckers of New Jersey an 
Virginia and other Atlantic coast states. From there its popularitv ha 
extended throughout the whole of the United States and it is a standard 
well known variety now nearly everywhere. 
It >s a pure white potato, nearly round in shape with eves rathe 
“°r e Pronounced than in the Early Ohio. It usually outyields Earl 
Ohio although not quite as early. 
The potatoes are very attractive looking and of most excellent quality 
rather ahead of all other earlies in that respect, always cooking u] 
dry and mealy. This variety will please anyone who wants a few earlie 
for home use as well as the large grower and the market gardener 
Prices, Certified Stock: y 2 pk., 30c; pk., 50c; bu., $1.45; 100 lbs 
$2.25; 500 lbs. at $2.20 per 100 lbs.; 1,500 lbs. at $2.15 per 100 lbs 
Sacks free. 
Red River Irish Cobblers. 
March 1, 1937. 
"We have ordered a peck of your Chippewa potatoes and 2 lbs. of Wis. 
Early Sweet Peas and Semesan from you through our grocer -.* 
I told him how ivell we liked this variety of Peas and thought he could 
sell some. We had them six days earlier than stated in catalog and they 
were good sized Peas then.” 
Etta C. Logan, Wis. 
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