Agriculture for beginners . from four to six ir.: ws should be from thirty to forty indhc.:> i;.,.iij ^.mjl Never plant untilthe sun has thoroughly warmed the land. The bean may besowed, however, earlier than cowpeas. A most convenienttime is just after com is planted. The rows should be culti-vated often enough to ke^ out weeds and grass and to keepa good dust muldi, but the cultivation must be shallow. As soy beans are grown for hay and also for seed, the har-vesting will, as with the other l^;ume5, be controlled by the FEED STUFFS 259 purpose for which the crop was planted.
Agriculture for beginners . from four to six ir.: ws should be from thirty to forty indhc.:> i;.,.iij ^.mjl Never plant untilthe sun has thoroughly warmed the land. The bean may besowed, however, earlier than cowpeas. A most convenienttime is just after com is planted. The rows should be culti-vated often enough to ke^ out weeds and grass and to keepa good dust muldi, but the cultivation must be shallow. As soy beans are grown for hay and also for seed, the har-vesting will, as with the other l^;ume5, be controlled by the FEED STUFFS 259 purpose for which the crop was planted. In harvesting fora hay crop it is desirable to cut the beans after the podsare well formed but before they are fully grown. If the cut-ting is delayed until the pods are ripe, the fruit will shatterbadly. There is a loss, too, in the food value of the stems ifthe cutting is late. The ordinary mowing-machine with arake attached is generally the machine used for cuttins: the. Fig. 23S. Sov Beans in Corn Stalks. The leaves should be most carefully preserved, forthey contain much nourishment for stock. Whenever the beans are grown for seeds, harvesting shouldbegin when three fourths of the leaves have fallen and mostof the pods are ripe. Do not wait, however, until the pods areso dr\- that they have begun to split and drop their slight amount of dampness on the plants aids the threshing mav be done with a flail, with pea-hullers, orwith a grain-threshing machine. 26o AGRICULTURE FOR BEGIXXERS The beans produce more seed to the acre than cowpeas \- bushels is a high \ield. The average }ield is betweentwenty and thirty- bushels. Descriptive Table C;.:; L;rx Rz VA- :<; Alfalfa Hay Perennial AD animals like ii: hogseat it even when itisdrv. Red clover Hay and pastore Perennial Best of the clovers for hav. Alsike clover Haj^ and pasture Perennial Seeds itself for twenty-years. This clover is agreat favorite with bees. Mammoth clover
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