The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1917-05-18
FEEDING THE ARMY
A PATRIOTIC DUTY
The Nation Needs Food and Forage
Crops-Farmers Should Plant Plen-
tifuIIy of All the Food Crops.
L. w. Osborn, Agricultural Expert
ment Station, University of
Arkansas

Remember, Mr.. Farmer that In tnls
national crisis you are expected to
raise enough food and feed to take
care of your family and the livestock
ON your farm. In making your
! plans you should raise the crops
which will give you the great
est returns per acre not only IN
money. but in food value. DO
not forget to plant such crops as corn,
oowpeas, soy beans, velvet beans, pea
nuts, Sudan grass, sorghum, etc. AZ
This time it will pay you to give par
ticular attention to the soy bean.
Soy Bean Has Many Uses.
AS a marketable crop the possibili-
t3es of the soy bean are immense. The
forage, when cut as the pods are well
Gormed, is palatable and nutritious
for all classes of live stock. 1t is
well known that the supply OF
linseed oil, which in the past
has been the chief oil used in paint
manufacture, is limited and variable.
Soy bean oil can be substituted either
partially or entirely for certain more
expensive oils in the manufacture OF
paints, enamels, varnishes and soaps.
The oil can also be used to make edi-
bio salad oil and as butter subst-
stute. The soy bean meal which is the
by-product from the seed after the Oil
10 expressed, can be used for fertiliz-
sers or as a concentrate to feed live
Etock or for -four to use for human
consumption. Soy bean meal contains
even more protein than is found In
E0tton seed meal.
Adapted to Many Soils and
Conditions.
The soy bean is legume and conse-
uusntly when grown upon a properly
snoculated soil will increase the nitro
gen content of the soil. At the same
time the crop is a convenient one to
place in crop rotation. 1t grows
and thrives during the hottest sum-
mer weather. 1t is well adapted
70 various types of soils and con-
6itions, and different varieties are
successfully grown under the same
climatic conditions as corn.
Seed Bed Should Be Well Prepared.
The seed bed should be well pre-
pared for soy bean seed and can be
asown any time after severe frosts arc
orer until about July /. Earlier seed
ings usually produce heavier growth
OF foliage and require longer growing
season Even the later varieties show
marked ability to adjust themselves
to shortened growing season when
seeded late
Best Varieties For Seed Production.
Variety of soy beans vary in time
of maturity, in color and size Of seed
and in growth characteristics. Nu-
merous varieties are in existence, but
only about fifteen are handled com
mercially by seeds men. The following
are among the more important varie-
ties especially suitable for seed pro-
duction.
Mammoth Yellow soy bean is a
standard commercial variety grown
more extensively than any other IN
Arkansas. The variety yields well Of
both grain and forage 1t is one OF
the latest varieties in time of ma
turity.
The Habelandt soy bean is similar
in appearance Of seed. but is some
what earlier than Mammoth. The va
riety is satisfactory for grain produc'
ton, hut does not produce as luxur
liant growth for hay. 1t is advisa
bile where an earlier variety than
Mammoth is desired.
There are other varieties which are
very suitable for seed and forage pro
duction, but which are not so com
munly grown. Certain varieties. such
~ the Virginia, Arlington, Wilson and
Picking produce plants with some
what finer stems than the Mammoth
and are an advantage for forage pro
auction.
Care Must BE Taken in harvesting.
Soy beans are best fitted for hay
when the pods are well formed. Wher
grown for grain alone. the cutting
may be delayed in the case Of mos
varieties until all of the leaves have
fallen Care must be taken to har
vest before the pods begin TO burst.
In storing soy beans after thresh
fng, the beans should be spread gu
and not massed in large quantities
Soy beans will heat rather easily 1
not thoroughly dry, and the germina
zion will be ruined.
a Good Market For the Soy Bean.
In addition to being good wa
measure, remember that 1t will pay t
consider the soy bean as a permanen
money crop since It has been fount
that cotton seed oil mills can be ad
justed without much trouble to u.s.
soy beans Different Investigators re
port that only a few minor and mex
pensive changes In equipment ar
necessary.
Cotton seed oil mills in Arkansa
will no doubt welcome the soy
bean as commercial crop. An add
tional crop OF tn ara ter will ex
tepd their operatinl son and less
eE their idle reason. ich il fire.
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