Greatest Demand in History 
Predicted for 1942! 
Adhesives, vital to defense industries and hous- 
ing were formerly obtained from Casein. How- 
ever, Casein is a milk product, and production 
is limited. A serious shortage is developing 
because of the increased demand for milk in 
edible form, under the Food For Defense Pro- 
gram and the Lease-Lend Act. 
Now Department of Agriculture chemists find 
that Soy Bean protein can be substituted for 
Casein as an adhesive. It is estimated that 
10.000 tons of Soy Bean protein will be re- 
quired annually for this purpose alone, to make 
up for Casein shortages. This is three to four 
times the amount now being produced. 
However, because of excessive moisture this 
fall, nearly all Soy Bean varieties have carried 
very high moisture content at harvest. Due to 
its high oil content, the Soy Bean takes on 
moisture readily and dries out very slowly. 
Consequently beans with high moisture con- 
tent. cannot be binned without destroying 
germination, and a large percentage of the Soy 
Beans harvested, will be unfit for seed. 
Our Soy Beans have been carefully grown 
and harvested. They contain less than 14% 
moisture. The germination is about 95% or 
better. Order your Soy Bean Seed early to ob- 
tain our finest quality, high germinating stocks, 
with low moisture content. 
How To Grow Soy Beans 
CULTURE. Soy Beans require about the 
same treatment as corn, 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 and 
plugging up every other drill, using 80 
to 90 lbs. per acre. 
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. 
Soy Beans may also be broadcast, using 
about 90 to 120 lbs. per acre. 

3. 
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. 

EDIBLE SOY BEANS . .. . Page 4 
SOY BEAN FOODS. . . . . Page 77 
SOY BEAN INOCULATION . . Page 64 
Page 72 Plant Minnesota Grown 

Barly Minnesota Manchus—a most profitable crop for Minnesota farms. 
The Most Profitable 
HABARO—Registered 
Originated by the Minnesota Experiment Station. 
Habaro igs the most outstanding variety for 
Minnesota and the Northwest. When it became 
generally known that soybeans were such a 
profitable crop, there immediately was a demand 
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 35 to 40 bushels of well matured 
beans per acre on_ good land under normal 
growing conditions. Price: 5 Ibs. 80c, postpaid. 
See Blue Figure Price List. 
MUKDEN 
Mukdens mature a little earlier than Manchu 
and Illini, grow upright and do not have a ten- 
dency to lodge. 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 
important varieties. Be sure to try this variety. 
Price: 5 lbs. 80c, postpaid. See Blue Figure 
Price List. 
NEW RICHLAND SOY BEANS 
(70509-2) 
Distributed by the Purdue Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, Matures about the same as Ha- 
baro. or in about 105 days. Equal in yield to 
Habaro, and adapted to the same _ territories. 
Outstanding characters are high yield, early_ma- 
turity, and excellent resistance to lodging. It is 
a very outstanding oil mill variety, and we sug- 
gest growers obtain seed of this exceptional 
Strain to produce high yielding, good quality 
crops for sale to oil processing mills in their 
locality. 
Price: 5 lbs. 80c, postpaid. 
Canada Yellow Field Peas 
CHANCELLOR—Resgistered 
Field Peas are better suited to the Northwest 
than other annual legumes for building up worn- 
out soils. They 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, they are 
threshed together, and easily separated with a 
fanning mill after threshing, thereby getting 
two crops from one operation. Sow 2 bushels of 
oats to 11%4 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: 5 lbs, 80c, postpaid. For prices 
on larger quantities, see Price List. 

Soy Bean Varieties! 
MANCHU 
This variety takes the lead among Soy Beann 
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. 
Mianchu 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: 5 lbs. 80c, postpaid. 
See Blue Figure Price List. 
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. 5 
Ibs. 80c, 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: 5 Ibs. 80c, postpaid. See Blue Figure List. 
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 
pein 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 
lbs. 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 Ibs. 
of Vetch and % bu. of rye per acre. Price: 
5 lbs. $1.00, postpaid. See Price List. 


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