







mate great usefulness this year. Has been popula 
_ right along. Nutritious. Easy to grow. 
‘i vides good volume, too. Be- sure to plan 
a hay-type bean... the bl eck var a 
much preferred for bett  y 
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leafy plants. Yellow — yp 
_ beans—less hay. 
“MANCHU” SOY BEANS 
This is the so-called yellow bean—best for meal 
and oil production. It produces great quantities of 
medium-sized beans which mature in about 110 
days. The beans stay in the pods till threshing 
much better than most varieties—a valuable char- 
acteristic in case of a warm, dry fall. While 
Manchu’s chief value is for bean production—it 
often reaches 28 to 35 bushels per acre—its erect 
and bushy plant can be used to good advantage 
for forage and for hogging down. Be sure to in- 
oculate your seed. 
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For Quick Hay . . . Soy Beans 
Where clover, alfalfa or other legume hay is short, soy 
beans provide an excellent substitute. Soy bean hay con- 
tains 14 to 16 per cent crude protein, compared to about 
15 per cent in alfalfa, and about 13 per cent in clover 
hay. Feeding experiments have shown soy bean hay 
equal to alfalfa for dairy cattle. Sheep relish it and thrive 
on it. From average soils 1%4 to 2% tons of good hay 
per acre may be expected—depending on the season and 
fertility level. 
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Sudan and soy beans best for green feed. If you wait 
until growth of soys is big enough for hay, then the 
Sudan is too far gone and too tough. Use these com- 
binations for green feed for best results. 
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Well-Managed Pasture 
One of the most important things on pasture manage- 
ment is to get cows to get in there early and to keep 
that grass down to less than 4 inches on a general aver- 
age. Just as soon as the grass gets too high too quick 
and too early in the spring, the cows can’t handle it 
and it starts getting tall and pokes them in the eyes and 
they start wandering around taking a bite here and there. 
While it is low and thick they go slowly and pro- 
gressively move their heads from side to side and take it 
all as it comes. 
Applying manure in the middle of the winter when the 
ground is frozen is a very good way to get this pasture 
to perk up quickly in the spring. 
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How Would You Like to Farm in Britain? 
The American farmer faces some tough going this year, 
but the British farmer has it even tougher. He has to: 
Carry on all normal after-nightfall farm operations with- 
out a light visible in his barnyard or showing from his 
house or other farm buildings; get used to having in his 
turnip field an anti-aircraft battery which periodically 
flames into action against enemy night raiders; work 
his fields up to the very edge of bomb craters—perhaps 
as many as 50 of them scattered about in his most pro- 
ductive land; sell increased products—grown under 
handicaps of labor and equipment shortages—at fixed 
prices; feed livestock and poultry on a coupon ration 
basis; pay a heavy income tax, and, if his profits are 
above a fixed level, give up 100 per cent of that surplus 
profit. 
Despite all these handicaps, United Kingdom farmers 
have increased their crops 50 per cent over the pre-war 
average. Britain has jumped 70 per cent above the al- 
ready high production levels. 
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EDIBLE SOY BEANS 
The protein value of soy beans has been very 
much emphasized during the meat shortage. The 
fact is, however, that the edible varieties of soy 
beans are delicious as well as nutritious, and many 
people like ourselves eat them just because we like 
them. Thinking that the families of our friends 
might like this treat also, we have grown some 
seed of the Bansei Soy Bean. The Bansei Bean can 
be eaten green in the pod like a string bean, green 
shelled like a lima bean, or in the familiar dried 
bean form. 
BANSEI SOY BEANS are one of the earliest 
and most productive of all edible soy beans, and 
will produce crops in nearly every section of the 
East. Plants grown about 24 inches high are 
literally loaded with pods, which they support 
without need for stakes or brush. Beans are bright 
green when young, maturing to a yellow. Plant 
beans 1 or 2 inches apart in rows 28 inches apart. 
One-half pound of seed will plant many feet of row, 
enough to provide many delicious meals at every 
stage of growth. Give your family this new treat— 
add Bansei Edible Soy Beans to your seed order 
this spring. 
