Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-24
ACREAGE IN MARSHALL COUNTY
TO BE INCREASED 400
PER CENT.
FIVE THOUSAND ACRES TO
BE PLANTED IN COUNTY
Value Of Soy Beans for Hosglng
Down With Corn and Silage Rec
oenized - Some Varieties Now
Adapted to Local Climatic Condi-
tions-Methods Of Planting.


The call for seed is many times
greater than last spring. The cheap
source OF protein which soy beans
afford makes them a valuable feed
when such protein feeds like oil meal
and cotton seed meal are so high.
Soy beans improve the SOIL and are
unsurpassed among annual legume
crops.
The farm bureau office has taken
an active part in introducing varie-
ties best adapted to local conditions.
Two varieties OF beans are used in
this section, one for hogging down
with corn and the other to be plant
ed with corn to be cut for silage.
The more popular hogging down
varieties mature in from 100 to 10
Gays and include the following
standard varieties: Ito San yellow
Colored). Black Eyebrow, Early
Brown, Manchu (yellow), Chestnut
and Elton. These varieties grow
about twenty-six to twenty eight
inches in height and mature a pro-
fuse mass OF pods filled with beans,
which have a protein content of fully
80 per cent.
Silage Varieties Of Bean.
The silage varieties suitable for
Marshall county climatic conditions
mature III 1c0 70 125 days and grow
to height varying from thirty-two
to thirty eight inches. The addition
of soy beans to corn silage produces
4 vary valuable feed, carrying a
| much higher content Of protein than
/ field corn alone, which means a saw
ing in the purchase of so much pro-
tein mill feed. Such varieties as
Mongol, Hollybrook, and Medium
Green grow sufficiently tall to be
harvested by the corn binder in the
bundles Two to three beans planted
to each hill Of corn have given the
best results so far.
I The first fields Of corn and soy
beans were planted by mixing the
| two seeds together IN the planter
boxes. but the result was rather
uneven stand Of corn and beans. due
to the fact that the beans are nearly
round and settle to the bottom Of the
planter box, giving many hills Of
beans alone.
Successful Methods.
The successful methods Of planting
beans with corn is to use a soy bean
attachment, consisting of two seed
boxes placed back Of the corn plant
err boxes and connected with sprocket
gear. chain and bubes. the latter Of
Z
directly into hill drop attachment OF
each runner as each hill Of corn IS
dropped, placing both beans and corn
in every hill when the corn is check
ed. Most Of the seed plates sent
SOW bean attachments have the holes
trimmed out too much, allowing too
many beans TO fall thru at n time.
BY securing a pair of blank plates
and trimming them out to suit the
size Of the seed much better results
will be secured and the beans will
cover a much greater acreage ana
lower the cost Of seeding.
The standard varieties named have
been very scarce this season, due to
the unprecedented demand from over
practically the entire corn belt. The
farm bureau supply of hoggng down
beans is exhausted, but a fair sup
ply of silage beans is available.
These beans may be had at cost as
long as the supply lasts, but the first
applicant will get the seed.
Plant 5000 Acres.
Fully 5000 acres will be planted to
a combination of soy beans and corn
this year in Marshall county alone.
Farmers are warned that the Mann
mouth Yellow soy bean is not suited
10 local conditions. This bean does
not grow erect but falls over in a
tangled mess. This variety Is grown
in the south and requires 145 days to
mature.
Some Iowa seed houses have ship
ped this variety in because it can be
purchased at less than half the cost
of standard varieties but is sold at
the price secured for types suitable
here. County Agent w. A. Buchanan
will attempt to identify any soy bean
seed purchased without knowing the
variety by sending samples to the
farm bureau office. ~
Plant for Seed Purposes.
A few farmers are planning, to
plant limited acreage of soy beans
for seed purposes Planting for this
nlIrnnse renniras TWENTY-FIVE to thir-
ty pounds of seed per acre, drilled
the same as corn, and should be
planted about three beans to the
hill, with hills six inches apart in
the rows. The yield of seed under
favorable conditions will vary from
fifteen to thirty-fiv bushels.
i Some farmers have rugged up the
gear and distributing part of worn
/; out manure spreaders and threshed
4 their beans successfully while others