Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1917 — MAY PUT OUT BEANS [ARTICLE]

MAY PUT OUT BEANS

Washington, D. C., June 12. — Northern farmers may well plant a much larger acreage to soy beans for seed, according to the United States department of agriculture. In view of the present and prospective high prices of soy beans for food and manufacturing purposes, there, is no likelihood of over-production this year. The soy bean also is a soil improver, and the straw is valuable for feeding purposes. As a seed crop the soy bean should be planted about June 1 in the North. However, in the southern part of the central states plantings may be made as late as June 15.” Where clover or grass has winter-killed the soy bean may beplanted to good advantage. Varieties with yellow seeds are preferred by food manufacturers. The Ito San is the earliest maturing yeljow: variety available and yields .well in Wisconsin, Michigan, northern Indiana, Ohio, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. In the central and southern parts of the northern states the medium yellow, Mongol and Mikado are more desirable sorts. Considerable quantities of seed of these varieties are still available for planting. Northern farmers should be particularly careful-not to plant the mammoth variety, of which much seed is in the market in the North. This variety, also known as late yellow, southern yellow and Virginia yellow, will not mature north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers.