Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1916 — Plant Soy Beans Where Corn Is Drowned Out. [ARTICLE]

Plant Soy Beans Where Corn Is Drowned Out.

The agricultural department makes the following suggestion as to what to do with land where corn or oats ha\e been drowned out: On fields where oats have been drowned out or it has been so we: that corn either is a poor stand or not planted at all, soy beans can be sown as late as June 20, or even later and a hay crop made from them. Soy bean hay is equal to clover in feeding value and will yield from one to two tons per acre. They will also mature a seed crop, if seeded by June 15. They can be seeded with a drill at the rate of one bushel per acre, psing every hole of the drill. Not less than a bushel of seed should be sown broadcasted or drilled, if seeded lighter the beans will not keep the weeds down. Soil should be prepared as for corn, and free from weeds. The variety that is adapted to our conditions for late planting is the medium yellow, and should be bought for about $2 a bushel. Soy beans will usually come off of the land in time to seed it to wheat, which is a good crop to put on this land. They are an annual legume and do the ground some good in a fertility way, even if taken off for hay. The seed should be inoculated. The glue method is convenient and takes only a little time.