SOY BEANS 
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 com¬ 
pact 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 ihe 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 broadcasted. 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 
I to 2 in. deep. Cut for hay when the pods begin to fill, leave on the ground until 
wilted, then rake up and place in tall, loose cocks for about a week. 
Muneli ii 
Soy 
Beaux 
INOCULATE 
THIS SEED 
WITH 
HUMOGERM 
MEDIUM YELLOW 
Popular throughout the Central States. Is quite early and 
produces a heavy crop of beans, which makes it desirable. 4302 
—Lb., 24c; peck, $1.23, postpaid to 4th zone. Not prepaid: Peck, 
66e; V> bu., $1.05; bu. (60 lbs.), $1.95; ZV S bu., $4.75; 5 bu., $9.45; 
10 bu., $18.65. Bags free. 
MANCHU SOY BEANS 
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. Very pro¬ 
ductive. The Wisconsin Experimental Station recommends it. 
4309 —Ll>., 23c; peck, $1.20, postpaid to 4th zone. Not prepaid: 
Peck, 58c; bu., $1.00; bu. (60 lbs.), $1.90; 2% bu., $4.65; 5 bu., 
$9.15; 10 bu., $17.95. Bags free. 
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 — Lb., 22c; peek, $1.18, postpaid to 4th zone. 
Not prepaid: Peck, 55c; % l»u., 98c; bu. (60 lbs.), $1.85; 214 bu., 
$4.50; 5 bu., $8.85; 10 bu., $17.45. Bags free. 
EDIBLE SOY BEANS 
Soy Beans as a food for man, have attracted much atten¬ 
tion in North America at times, but in the past they could be 
little used except in flour, sa'uce, and oil. Soy Beans are of 
great value for diabetics ! The difficulty in using them like 
field and navy beans for a hot dish, was due to their not 
cooking and baking to the necessary degree of softness. 
Edible Soy Beans offered for the first time on our Seventieth 
Anniversary will cook soft and will bake_ soft, using your own 
navy bean recipes, and they make a delicious dish! S'oy Beans 
contain the water-soluble and the fat-soluble vitamins, and 
contain at the most, but a slight trace of starch! Those on 
a low starch diet, need no longer be limited to_ soy bean bread 
alone. The seed we offer, may be used for immediate table 
consumption as well as for planting! 
Prof. Geo. M. Briggs of the Wisconsin Agriculture College 
developed Edible Soy Beans after several years’ work and we 
believe their use will be an enormous boon, not only as a 
health food hut as a palatable dish. They yield 20 bu. and 
up per acre, maturing in about 85 days. Edible Soy Beans, 
so rich in nutrient constituents, are a fine substitute for meat. 
See also Page 9. 43 12 — Pkg., 15c; V 4 lb., 27c; Vz lb., 45c; 
lb., 79c; 2 lbs., $1.35; 5 lbs., $2.95, postpaid. Not prepaid: 
10 lbs., $4.75; 25 lbs., $11.50; 50 lbs., $22.75; 100 lbs., 
$45.00. Bags free. 
Jerusalem 
Artichokes 
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKES 
The new sugar crop for diabetics! Jerusalem Artichokes contain insulin and authori¬ 
ties find that these may be assimilated when diabetics cannot safely take any other carbo¬ 
hydrates, except in small quantities. They also supply levulose which is almost 50% 
sweeter than either cane sugar or beet sugar, termed sucrose. Many diabetics are eating 
Jerusalem Artichokes with great benefit, and hospitals should be apprised of a source of 
supply! They resemble potatoes and may be eaten like potatoes either fried or baked, 
as potato chips or as soup stock. 
As a farm crop, it is one crop in which the tops and tubers may both be utilized! They 
may be both fed to all classes of live stock; chickens lay more eggs, cows give, more milk, 
and hogs fatten and are free from disease. Jerusalem Artichoke tops alone yield 5 to lo 
tons of silage or fodder to the acre, and of high quality, especially for dairy cattle. The 
tubers yield froni 10 to £0 tons per acre! Grows on practically any soil blit does best on 
light and sandy soils. The tubers are not good keepers, however, and therefore, dig them 
as needed. Prior to the ground freezing, dig enough for winter use and leave the balance 
in the ground for the next spring’s use, after the ground has thawed. They are very 
hardy. 
8 bu. plant an acre, spaced 3 ft. by 2 ft. in rows. One acre should keep 20 to 30 hogs 
from Oct. to April. Some leave the hogs root out the tubers right in the field. Plant like 
potatoes, planting the small ones whol-e, from early spring until June. Diabetics may order 
this seed stock for immediate table use! Price: Lb., 25c; 3 lbs., 50c; 5 lbs., (>8c; lo it>s., 
$1.43, postpaid to 4th zone. Not prepaid: 15 lbs., 80c; 30 lbs., $1.4;>; bu. (60 lbs.;, 
$3.75; 100 lbs., $4.50; 500 lbs., $21.95; 1000 lbs.. $43.25. 
The Jerusalem Artichokes that we ordered from you did wonderfully well.— 109 
Mr. Orville Miller, Clementson, Minnesota. 1 
