Washington County News | 1900-06-02 | Page 3 | Land for Soy Beans

Land for Soy Beans. ' The land for soy beans should he j prepared about the same as for corn. A Kansas grower says that listing is j not advisable as the pods grow too I close to the ground tc admit of cultivating. culti-vating. Some that have tried listing have got fairly good results by filling the ditches before planting, but the seed should be put in newly prepared earth, at least in the parts of the country coun-try where the rain-fall is hardly sufficient suf-ficient for the ordinary crops. Late planting is advocated by many growers, grow-ers, as this gives the crop a good start of the weeds. Farmers that have corn, Kafir corn and soja beans, usually plant the Indian corn first, then the Kafir corn and lastly the soja beans. The land is sufficiently warm by that time to respond quickly. However, the planting should be early enough to permit the crop to receive moisture from the rains that fall in the forepart fore-part of the summer, unless the ground Is saturated with water sufficiently to supply moisture for some time to come.