The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-23

] r~S- VI IVY hNAASs
There are a number of varieties of soy
beans, but the early yellow soy has proved
the best, says the Farm and Ranch. They
/ are erect growing, with from one to six Or
/ more stems branching out from near the
| ground and reaching a hight Of from one
/ and one-half TO three and one-half feet:
seldom falling down, except in very rich,
/ Loose land. The branches are thickly
/ studded with PODS from the surface Of the
/ ground 70 The top; single plant having
sometimes as many as 200 pods containing
! from one to four beans, the usual number
! being three. The soy bean is a remarka-
| bic drought-resister, and viii do COMPARE
| lively well on thin land. However, they
respond very readily to plenty of moisture
4 and good soil. Being a legume if The
| bacteria which produce the tubercles on
/ The roots are present in the soil, they
! leave the land richer in nitrogen the same
/ as clover does. The land may be inoeu-
| lated by getting earth from a field that hos
the bacteria in the soil and planting it in
/ the rows with the beans We used a fer
! tiliZeT attachment to a hose drill this year
/ with good success. Planting should not
be done until the weather is warm-after
corn planting. They will make a fair
/ crop after rye or wheat if the season is
! favorable. The ground should be well
! prepared, and the beans planted near the
surface. We plowed the ground last spring,
/ going over what we plowed each day with
| CampbeIl's Subsurface Packer, and plant
ed the beans Immediately, with a press
drll. stopping holes SO as to p ant in rows
thirty inches apart and from one to two
inches in the row. This required thirty
pounds (one-half bushe) 70 the acre
They may be cultivated as other crops;
keeping the scN in gO-d shape and the
weeus down is an that is required. We
used the spring-looth Gu tvater, except in
a few places where the weeds OBJ aimed a
s.art on account Of the wet weather. The
crop can be handled SO it will not be ne
cessary TO use the hoe az all. Land that
has been lately MANFRED is liabfs TO give
trouble. as ii is usually weedy.
Until this year the harvesting has heen
the great problem, but we found that thee
are machines ma ufa ct 4 for the ur-
pose, and have tried several of them and
found them to be successful, so The har-
veslng no logger stands n the way. The
yeliow soy does not shell read ". and 50
can be stand until well lipeued. We te-
gan harVes ing when most OF he pods had
turned brown, and few of the top leaves
were sticking on. The bean harvester has
large knives which cut the st ms just I'M
der 4 e ground, cutting twO rJws al lime
and throwing them together in a wind
row. An ordinary one-herae hay-rake will
take TWO Of hese windows at a time
and the horse walks between them We
harVcs er, and left them to cure in the
shock Threshing was done in the fed
W tn an or6i airy separator, using an b k
cOnCave and running no faster Than neces-
sary 10 keep he machine from ogging in
tire shak rs and riddles, so as not 20 crdCN
the beans.
The +, flowing IS the cost of prolucti liens
on the Kansas Co lege farm this year. TIE
work was conducted as n ar as poss bic
on a commercial basis the object being
10 find what could he done on a large
scale. The sixty acres from VIII CHI he fol-
loving is take comprises several fields,
which vary widely in many respects from
good lard 10 very poor, on The whole, per-
haps, below the aver &c on farm lana. La
o is computed at $1.25 FER day for a man
and $40 p,r day FIR man ana team. The
cost Per acre o. the various items was as
follows; Prepal ation of land, a.s5; Plant
ing, 20 cents cultivating, 81; hoemg, 20
cents, which was confns d to few patch
es; ha vesunS, 81 40 Z he harvesting IS ,Un-
siderably above what it will be when the
regular harvester is used, but we lid not
receive The harvester i'm time to begin, and
the cid method is much more expensive.
The threshing required four teams and
six men, besides the machine force, which
was hired at SIS per day board aud coal
not included The total expense for
threshing the sixty acres, which took four
and one-half days aside from the cost of
COAL Was sl-j- 80 1 lAS SitAO Vi ti4S SiAty
acres was $50 bushels, making the cost of
threshing IL Clio cents per bushel. The
sixty acres of beans averaged fifteen and
one-half bushels per acre. making the cost
of production 55 cents per bushel, or about
IS 40 per acre.
Soy beans as a feed take the place of
oil or gluten meal, and in composition are
richer than oil meal. In feeding them. to
mich cows, fattening cows and hogs, they
have given astonishing results. In two
experiments carried on last winter in feed
ing hogs the addition of one-fifth soy bean
meal TO Kaffir corn gave practically dou-
BILE the returns from Kaffir alone. The
ten hogs fed kaffir meal alone, during a
period of fifty days, ate 2S72la pounds and
gained Al pounds; the ten fed Kafir meal
four-hfths and soy-bean meal one-ifth
ate 1896 pounds of the mixture, gained S66
pounds, and sold for 10 cents more on the
hundred than the other lot
When the beans are let thoroughly ripen
in the field the straw is worthless, but II
cut and cured while green makes excellent
hay. They make excellent hog pasture
and are a good crop for soiling,
Improved Farming at the South.
AT the Farmers National Congress, |
which met in Boston recently. T. c.
Slaughter of Collins, Tex, delivered the
following address:
Farming in the South no doubt presents |