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We Have $12,000 Invested in Cleaning Machinery to Give You Clean Seed. 
A beautiful drive thru the Blue Ridge Mountains, we took a year ago. 
We sell thousands of bushels of soy beans every year to these So. Eastern 
states. 
DUNFIELD 
One of our best yellow varieties. Larger than the 
Illini—about 2,200 to the pound. Almost round, very 
light yellow color. One of Indiana’s leading beans 
MANCHU 
One of the older varieties but still is grown in 
some sections where the advantages of the Illini 
are not known. We would advise buying Illini in¬ 
stead of Manchu. Manchu has a coarse stem branch¬ 
ing like a little tree. Not as heavy a foliage as 
Illini and pops out much worse than either Illini 
or Dunfield. In central Illinois about five days later 
maturing than the Illini, maturing in around 120 
days. 
BLACK BEANS 
We have a very good supply of high grade black 
beans secured from south central Illinois. Black 
beans are preferred by most farmers for a hay 
bean, having a finer stem and heavier leaf foliage, 
two essentials for a good hay bean. 
ILLINI 
Best all-purpose bean. The bean 
developed by the Illinois Agricul¬ 
tural College several years ago and 
now the leading soy bean in the 
United States. We estimate that 
fully 85% of the yellow beans pro¬ 
duced in the United States are Illini. 
Ten years ago the Manchu was the 
leading variety, but this old variety 
is now but little grown, tlje Illini 
being a much better bean for every 
purpose. 
The Illini is a small, round yellow 
bean about 3,000 to a pound. Med¬ 
ium early maturity. Averages 30 to 
36 inches tall. Stands up exception¬ 
ally well. One of the strange char¬ 
acteristics of the Illini bean, which 
makes it one of the best, is that 
even though it has a medium heavy 
growth, if wind has lodged it after 
the foliage sheds unless they are 
down badly they will straighten up 
which makes them much easier to 
harvest. 
Illini also makes a very good hay 
bean and here in Illinois where so 
many of them are grown, the farm¬ 
ers usually cut their hay crop 
around the outside of the fields 
which leaves the field already opened 
up for the combine. 
Another great advantage of the 
Illini bean is that it does not shat¬ 
ter badly. In fact, it will stand out 
all winter with but little loss in 
shattering. 
having been produced by the Agricultural College of 
Purdue. Matures two or three days earlier than the 
Illini bean. 
HAY MIXTURE 
This mixture contains 50% black beans and 50% 
yellow. Black beans which are the best variety for 
hay do not stand up well as the yellow on account 
of the heavy foliage and light stems. By sowing 
yellow beans with the black they help to hold up 
the black beans and make much better hay. 
VIRGINIA 
A medium size brown bean. Rather flat in shape. 
Well adapted to southern one-half of Illinois. 
Farther north is used as a hay bean or ensilage 
bean. A fine stemmed, slightly vining type which 
grows from 36 to 48 inches long, rather late, taking 
125 days to mature. 
Table 7—Effect of Inoculation on Composition and Yield of Manchu Soy Beans, 
University Farm, Urbana, 1924 
Yields 
Protein content 
Hay 
Seed 
Hay 
Seed 
Inoculated . 
Not inoculated . 
Gain for inoculation. 
Tons 
2.53 
1.78 
.75 
Bu. 
46.6 1 
34.7 1 
11 .9 1 
Per cent 
15.81 
14.62 
1.19 
Lbs. per ton 
316.2 
292.4 
23.8 
Per cent 
35.25 
31.05 
4.20 
Lbs. per ton 
705 
621 
84 
These are facts which show a gain of 1500 lbs. 
per acre increase in hay and 11 9/10 bushels in¬ 
crease in seed by proper inoculation of seed. Also 
notice the increased protein content of hay. 
Price of inoculation is less than half what it 
was three years ago. Kelly’s dry inoculator for 
soy beans or cow peas 5 bu. size 70 cents; 20 bu. size 
$2.00. Kelly’s jelly inoculator, 5 bu. size 70 cents. 
If you have your own beans send order for inocu¬ 
lation, or if you order beans include inoculation on 
order. Soy beans which are not inoculated are soil 
robbers and will not produce well. 
COW PEAS 
This year we have thousands of bushels of the 
best quality cow peas we have ever handled. The 
fall and winter were ideal for harvesting them in 
good condition. No mouldy cowpeas this year. 
A good many were cracked on account of being so 
dry, but this is our loss as they are well recleaned, 
and you will find very, very few cracked cow peas 
in the peas we sell you—not over 2%. A fair size 
crop was harvested by farmers who are holding 
most of the crop for more money, thinking the price 
is entirely too low. You can sow cow peas on your 
soil conservation acres, harvest the crop, sell it and 
collect your government money. For prices see 
price list enclosed. 
BLACK EYE BROW 
We have a few hundred bushels of this variety. 
Some like it, and it is one which you will be able 
to buy at a lower price than the other varieties. 
BRABHAM COW PEAS 
This is a new variety which is one of the best— 
now taking the place in a good many sections of 
the Whippoorwill. A good yielder and always very 
nice quality seed. It is almost impossible to get 
them pure, but we have some which run around 85% 
Brabhams. For prices see price list enclosed. 
MIXED COW PEAS 
These usually consist of a large percent of Brab¬ 
hams, Whippoorwills, Clays and Red Rippers. Large 
producers of cow peas tell us that mixed peas do 
better than most of the pure strains. See price list. 
SEED OATS 
All very fine quality, plump, heavy weight, good 
germination. Up to this date, December 30, we have 
sold more oats than any year we have been in the 
seed business. There have been many years that we 
have sold around 20,000 bushels of oats for seed, 
shipping them all over the United States. For the 
past two years, we have shipped a full car of seed 
oats to Pennsylvania. Every year we ship thou¬ 
sands of bushels of seed oats to New York, Penn¬ 
sylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and North 
and South Carolina. All oats are recleaned, bagged 
four bushels to 3 , bag. Bags charged at JOc each- 
