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‘KOREAN LESPEDEZA 
The lespedeza crop in the northern producing sections such as southern Illinois, south 
ern Indiana and Missouri, was almost completely ruined by the early freezes. 
Korean lespedeza is certainly a great benefit to southern sections where adapted, on 
poorer type soils, or where soil is starting to erode, but for the good black lands of the 
northern corn belt we do not recommend it, however it does pay to put it ina clover mix- 
ture and we always use some in these mixtures, Lespedeza is an annual and like all other 
annuals takes until late summer before it produces much feed, but during the latter part of 
August, up until it freezes,(when many other grasses have matured or burned up,) lesped- 
eza comes to the rescue making good fall pasture. We recommend when seeded alone, 12 
_ to 15 pounds per acre. We also recommend buying only hulled and scarified lespedeza. 
Most all lespedeza contains much dodder and the only way it can be cleaned is to have it 
hulled, scarified, and run over a dodder mill. Often lespedeza contains 20 to 25% ragweed 
before it is scarified and cleaned, and most farmers have enough ragweed on their farms 
without buying it. For price see price list enclosed. 
SOY BEANS 
We have sold inthe past for seed purposes more than a million bush- 
els of soy beans. We started selling soy beans when few people knew 
anything about them, farmers buying one-half bushel or so, planting 
them in the corn, thinking they would feed the corn plants and help 
fertilize the corn plant, as well as make some feed in the fall when the 
corn was Shucked and the cattle turned in the field. At that time sold 
soy beans for as much as $10.00 per bushel. These old varieties were 
Mongol, A.K., Hurlybrink, Manchu and black and brown beans. We now 
have newer and better beans suchas Chief, Illini, Dunfield, Muckden 
and Richland, which were not heard of at that time. 
We handle large quantities of soy beans at as low a cost as anyone. 
We have two houses where we take in thousands of bushels, handling 
them like wheat or oats, storing them in large bins holding 2,500 to 
4,000 bushel each. We have equipment where these are cleaned and 
_ sewed up,with practically no handling except the sewing of bags with 
an electric machine. 
1942 SOY BEAN CROP 
At the time we write this catalogue, December 22, millions of bushels of soy beans are 
still in the fields. Some covered deep with snow and doubt if any of these beans wili be fit 
for seeding purposes. In many sections north of us, a large part of the cropin central 
Tllinois, central Indiana, southern Ohio and southern Iowa were badly frozen. The freezes 
coming about 25 days before normal frost dates and fully 40 days ahead of the time for 
Such low temperatures, Looks as though this is going to make a serious shortage of seed 
beans in many sections, especially the later varieties, such as Chief, Kirkbride, Illini and 
Manchu, the best yellow varieties. 

CHIEF 
A new bean developed by Dr. Woodworth of the Illinois Agriculture Station, the man who 
developed the Illini soybean. This is a yellow bean similar in many respects to the Illini, 
but a better bean. Stands up better, yields better, pops out less than any other bean we 
know of. Also stands wet weather better. Grows a little taller than [lini and three or 
four days later. Most outstanding is the added yields. 
_- Germination on this variety will not be high on account of some of the later pods being 
frozen. Most chief beans will be low in germination. For prices see price list. 
This is a picture of a 75-acre field of 
Chief beans taken on Thanksgiving Day. 
Sixty days previous to this time these beans 
stood weeks and weeks of rain totaling 
about 17 inches, also several strong winds. 
Note how they still stand up in excellent 
shape and the beans showed little effect of 
all this moisture and wind. 

