SOY BEANS, Field Peas, Vetch 
Grow SOY BEANS for Hay, 
for Market, for Seed or 
Soil Improvement 
1. Easy to grow—thrive on soils too 
poor for other legumes. 
2. Survive drought, heat and not easily 
damaged by moisture. 
3. A good emergency crop (can be 
sown late). 
4. They enrich soil with nitragin, 
building up poor land. 
The hay is higher in protein than 
clover, equal to alfalfa hay for dairy 
cattle. 
6. Makes good _ ensilage grown with 
corn. Also used for hog pasture. 
A substitute for oil meal and even 
more digestible. 


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Recent trade in soybeans Ie uety. 
on the Chicago Poere of e 
Trade has been the larg- 
est since the market ee 
opened in 1936, according Needs 
to officials of the ex- More 
change. Volume of trad- SOY 
ing last Wednesday in- 
volved 2,596,000 bushels, BErINS 
largest on record. > 
(Reprint from Minneapolis Star- 
Journal, Nov. 24, 1940) 
EDIBLE SOY BEANS .. . . Page 4 
SOY BEAN FOODS. . . . . Page 80 
SOY BEAN INOCULATION . . Page 64 

Profitable Soy Bean Varieties for Northern Farms 
See Color Photo, Back Cover. 
HABARO—Resgistered 
Originated by the Minnesota Experiment Station. 
Habaro is the most outstanding variety for 
Minnesota and the Northwest. It was intro- 
duced a number of years ago, and when it be- 
came generally known that soy beans were such 
a profitable crop, there immediately was a de- 
mand for this variety. 
Habaro is earlier than Manchu and will pro- 
duce ripe beans anywhere in southern Minnesota 
and even in sections farther north, under good 
growing conditions. It is the highest yielding, 
yellow seeded soy bean variety, adapted to con- 
ditions such as we have in Minnesota. 
Habaros stand up straight, are very leafy and 
produce a large tonnage of nutritious hay per 
acre. They may be easily cut with a grain or 
corn binder, and have a high oil content which 
makes them desired by the crushers. Habaros 
will produce 85 to 40 bushels of well matured 
beans per acre on good land under normal 
growing conditions. We have a fair supply but 
with the great demand, these will not last long, 
So please order early. Price: Lb. 20c, postpaid. 
See Blue Figure Price List. ‘ 
MUKDEN 
Mukdens were introduced a few years ago and 
are now being grown extensively. The reason 
for their popularity is due to the fact that they 
mature a little earlier than Manchu and Illini, 
grow upright and do not have a tendency to 
Iddge. They are very leafy, produce a large 
tonnage of hay and a high yield of beans. The 
seed is yellow in color, resembling Manchu, but 
slightly smaller. In southeastern Minnesota and 
northern Iowa, Mukden is one of the most im- 
portant varieties. Be sure to try this variety. 
Price: Lb, 20c, postpaid. See Blue Figure Price 
List. 
MANCHU 
This variety takes the lead among Soy Beans 
in the Middle Western States. It is outstand- 
ing for all purposes—hay, feed, hogging down, 
as well as for planting with corn for the silo. 
It will fully mature under ordinary conditions 
and grows large enough to produce excellent 
yields of hay or a large crop of beans. A good 
average crop will produce 20 to 30 bushels of 
beans per acre. 
Manchu is a robust grower of vines which 
stand up well and are easily cut with the corn 
or grain binder. This variety matures in about 
100 days, being well adapted to the southern 
half of Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota and 
all sections farther south. In localities where 
the growing season is short, Manchu is pre- 
ferred for hay purposes, but an earlier variety 
must be grown for seed. The beans are yellow 
and of medium size, Price: Lb. 20c, postpaid. 
See Blue Figure Price List. 
Page 72 
New MANCHU, Early Minn. 
(Registered) 
Our seed stocks were grown directly from the 
‘“‘Ryan.Springfield strain.’’ This new strain ma- 
tures about the same time as Habaro (much 
earlier than regular Manchus), and -will ripen 
beans in central Minnesota and similar terri- 
tories, New Minnesota Manchus are erect, leafy 
and excellent for seed or forage. Both Habaros 
and Early Minnesota Manchus are high in oil 
and protein content, and low in moisture at har- 
vest. They have outyielded all other varieties in 
recent Minnesota Experiment Station trials. Lb. 
25c, postpaid. See Blue Figure Price List. 
New MANCHU, Early Wis. 
(Wisconsin Approved No. 3) 
A selection from Manchu by Wisconsin Ex- 
periment Station. Wisconsin No, 3 Manchu grows 
tall like regular Manchu. The bean is rather 
large in size. It matures earlier than standard 
Manchu and is outstanding in yields of seed 
and forage. Recommended for north central Min- 
nesota and Wisconsin and similar territories. 
Price: Lb. 25c, postpaid. See Blue Figure List. 
How To. Grow Soy Beans 
CULTURE. Soy Beans 
Same treatment as corn, 


require about the 
and will grow on al- 
most any kind of soil, shallow peat or sandy 
loam, and even ground containing too much 
alkali for corn. Do not plant Soy Beans too 
early, about corn planting time is right. 
Inoculate seed with Nitragin (page 64) and 
plant as follows: 
1. In ordinary 6 in. rows with a grain drill, 
using 90 to 120 lbs. of beans per acre. 
2. In 12 in. rows, using a grain drill 
plugging up every other drill, 
to 90 lbs. per acre. 
8. In 21 in. rows, using a corn planter with 
a bean attachment, the planter being set 
at the regular distance of 42 in. and the 
rows straddled, Plant about 70 to 75 lbs. 
of beans per acre. 
4. Soy Beans may also be planted in rows 30, 
36 and 42 in. apart and cultivated, Plant 
35 to 45 lbs. of beans per acre. 
5. Soy Beans may also be broadcast, using 
about 90 to 120 lbs. per acre. 
and 
using 80 
Soy Beans for Seed 
The seed crop is quite profitable. The seeds 
broken or split in threshing can be fed to live- 
stock. For seed, the Soy Beans should be cut 
with a grain binder, while the dew is still on 
them, so they will not shatter. They can be 
threshed without much curing, if the seed is 
spread out so it cannot sprout in the bins. 
Soy Beans may be turned under in the fall, 
thereby enriching the soil and making it mellow 
and easily tillable. 

Canada Yellow Field Peas 
CHANCELLOR—Registered 
Few farmers know the value of Field Peas as a 
hay crop and fertilizer. They fit into crop rota- 
tions well, and are better suited to conditions 
of the Northwest than any other annual legume, 
for building up worn-out soils. 
Field Peas are usually grown with oats for 
hay, a combination equal in feeding value to 
clover hay. They contain more digestible crude 
protein and fat than alfalfa and corn. 
When they are grown with oats, 
threshed together, and easily separated with a 
fanning mill after threshing, thereby getting 
two crops from one operation. Sow 2 bushels of 
oats to 1% bushels of peas per acre. Drill the 
peas in 4 inches deep, as early as the ground 
can be worked. Then, 2 or 3 weeks later, sow 
the oats, drilling it in the other way. If the 
oats are sown with the peas, they grow too 
rapidly, and check or smother the growth of 
the peas. Price: Lb. 20c, 5 lbs. 75c, postpaid. 
For prices on larger quantities, see Blue Figure 
Price List. 
they are 
Vetch (Sand or Hairy) 
Vetches, either green or as hay, make excel- 
lent feed and are also used extensively as cover 
and green manure crops. They make good hay, 
ensilage, pasture and green feed and are very 
valuable as a green fertilizer and as a cover crop 
iD openers, preventing the washing away of the 
soil, 
Vetch may be sown in the spring at the rate 
of 60 lbs. per acre, or with a grain crop such 
as oats, wheat, rye or barley, at the rate of 30 
Ibs, per acre, and using one-half of the normal 
rate of small grain. This combination makes 
excellent forage or hay and also aids in prevent- 
ing the Vetch from lodging. Vetch may also be 
seeded in the fall with winter rye for a hay 
crop, about August 1 to 20, using about 30 lbs. 
of Vetch and % bu. of rye per acre. Price: Lb. 
25c, 5 Ibs. $1.00, postpaid. See Blue Figure 
Price List. 
Plant Minnesota Grown Seed for Ripe Beans, and Inoculate with Nitragin—Page 64 
