Show soy beans 13 eans make popularity popular 1 ty bid T r id comparatively new crop rapidly gaining favor in many sections soy beans are making a cross coun try race into popularity among the farmers last year the northern states increased their soy bean acre age 25 per vent cent the total acreage of soy beans beang in the country was acres in 1024 1924 as against in 1923 1023 some states such as missouri showed a CO 50 per cent increase Seeds men are racing in their test test laboratories rind and testing grounds to catch up with the rush of the soy bean it has been found necessary to test this comparatively new farm crop both for climate and for soil the varying strains being somewhat national its as to their territory if they are to flourish although first known in the united states in 1804 t so far as records show the soy bean has not been a commercial product of importance in this country until the last few years in fact it Is chiefly a development since the war what they are good for to the layman the natural question appears to be what are soy beans good for that they should he be spreading over the country one of its chief uses Is for forage in this country it Is one of 0 the great oil vegetables and in times of failure of the cotton crop the soy bean Is call called ed into service it makes a very fine oil it Is also an article of food for human beings although much more highly higbe Y esteemed in the orient to date than it Is here where its use as a food Is practically unknown soy bean men meal Is an important fertilizer as well ns food for stock A vegetable milk Is made from the bean as well the oil Is used largely in the manufacture of soap and in paint manufacture the vines make good hay bay good fertilizer being a legume and lieving the trick of secreting its own nitrogen on its roots in small lumps or nodules it Is also valuable to grow and plow under for fertilizer and as a follo follow prop crop to keep the land in proper pon 0 dillon the soy bean lias bas earned the popularity larity it Is achieving |