INOCULANT 
WOULDN’T YOU INVEST 10c TO 20e TO 
GET BACK $20.00 TO $30.00? 
It is not a get-rich-quick scheme. There are plenty of facts to 
prove that these figures are correct. It only costs 10 cents to 
20 cents an acre to treat your Legume seeds with Hoffman’s 
Inoculant. The plants from these seeds will grow quicker, 
mature sooner—and they deposit nitrogen in the ground that 
will benefit your next crop. Result—a profit of $20 to $30 
per acre from inoculated seeds. 
The experience of Mr. N. S. Ryder, New Cumberland, Pa., 
shows what happens to inoculated seed. When he planted, he 
inoculated all his Soy Beans except one drill full of seed. The 
difference in those two places in the same field was so plain 
that even his skeptical neighbors were satisfied it paid. 
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU 
INOCULATE? 
Billions of little germs help the plant growth to form sacs on 
its roots. These "bugs” draw nitrogen from the air to deposit 
in the soil. If you don’t inoculate, the only source of nitrogen 
for the legume is robbing it from the ground. We don’t have 
to stress the cost of nitrogen as a fertilizer. When you realize 
that for every 1 ]/ 2 pounds of nitrogen the uninoculated plant 
takes FROM your soil, the inoculated plant will put 3 pounds 
INTO your soil, when plowed under, the value of the right 
inoculant is plain. Following crops of wheat, oats and corn 
benefit from this process. 
This benefit won’t be visible till the next crop in your rota¬ 
tion, but the effect on your legume crop is immediate. Effects 
of inoculant on alfalfa showed crop gains of half a ton per 
acre repeatedly. In one case 15 cents’ worth of inoculant pro¬ 
duced 1,680 more pounds of alfalfa in one cutting. The effect 
on Red Clover is shown in the picture at the top of this page. 
460 more pounds of Red Clover per acre have been reported. 
Soy Beans showed a gain of as much as a ton per acre. 
(Above)—Look at the big dif- 
terence ... on the right is 
growing big, healthy Red 
Clover—from INOCULATED 
Seed. Uninoculated seed was 
sown to produce the growth 
on left. ... No doubt about 
it—Inoculation PAYS! 
Look at these nodules! A 
well-inoculated Soy Bean root! 
Containing a great store of 
tree nitrogen gotten from the 
air. because the seed was 
inoculated! 
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