
The answer is definitely “yes” . . . EVERY time! 
At every sowing of legume seeds. The benefit 
so much, the cost so little. 
HOFFMAN INOCULANT 
IMPROVES YOUR SOILS 
AND LEGUME CROPS 
Grow your own nitrogen! Help every acre you 
sow to legumes do a better job for you. Clovers, 
alfalfa, soy beans, vetch, peas, etc. They all have 
the ability to gather nitrogen from the air while 
growing, and deposit it at their roots. Applying 
Hoffman Inoculant to the seed you sow helps 
every such plant do better. Take soy beans, for 
instance; if not inoculated they rob the soil, but 
inoculated properly they are real soil-builders! 
GREAT PROFIT AT LOW COST 
One careful test showed 40% more clover, 33% 
more soy beans, 67% more alfalfa . . . actual-by- 
weight crop increases over those from un-inoc- 
ulated seed. 
You just can't get such returns elsewhere on 
the farm—say $20 to $40 gain in crop value, by 
investments of maybe 10 to 20 cents an acre. 
Fifteen cents’ worth of alfalfa inoculant has re- 
turned 1,680 more pounds of hay to the acre. 
Oats following inoculated red clover has done 
twice as well as oats after timothy, because of 
that nitrogen-catching inoculant. The nitrogen- 
fixing bacteria of Hoffman Inoculant stay on the 
job for you. Producing good dark green plants, 
adding nitrogen-filled nodules to their roots, 
making extra crop and soil values for you. 
Order Hoffman Inoculant for each legume 
seed. 
The treatment that is good for clover is not 
good for alfalfa. Nor soy bean treatment for 
vetch, etc. Hoffman Inoculant is GUARANTEED 
a pure, live, fresh culture, and to produce nod- 
ules. Its quality and efficiency are unquestioned. 
Order for every seeding of legumes you put out 
. yes, even if you had inoculated that soil 
before . . . no telling what chemical changes 
have taken place in it since then. Your invest- 
ment is so small ... returns big! See price list. 
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Neglect of proper seed inoculation 
helps cause crop failures. Without 
these bacteria to produce nodules 
on the roots, and supply the crop 
with free atmospheric nitrogen, the 
legume plants must depend entirely 
on the nitrogen in the soil. The 
nitrogen-gathering bacteria give any 
legume its value. Without them, it 
will be pale and unthrifty, will not 
produce large yields of a high-pro- 
tein forage (protein is another name 
for nitrogen), will soon be chok 
out by weeds, and will o 
the soil poorer. _ : 





