Show SOY BEAN BEAr VERY PROFITABLE Increased Prices Brought About by Demand Demand Demand De De- mand for Seed Purposes and Utilization as Food Prepared by the United States Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of or Agriculture The soy bean benn Is a very profitable crop rop when grown for seed 1 and th the seed growing Industry Is being developed developed devel el In many growing cotton sections section E and In the southern part of the corn belt The character of growth Its uniform not uni form maturing habit and und Its lar large e yield of grain recommended the soy bens bean for seed production The many Bum disadvantages disadvantages JIul vantages which attend the harvesting of cowpeas cowpens are not common to th the tho so soy bean The Increased demand for tor seed Feed for planting planting- purposes and tia utilization of the dried bc beans ans as food foo R s r J f r j 1 l J Th i iF e J Jb f f t tf I. I N i f f 1 I r m l' l 1 ff q J. J OI 1 H E f. f I. I A 1 h t i f- f ff r ft J t f I lf Y i 1 h l S v. 1 r J 3 v I If it t rP h W 1 f j Gathering Soy Soy Bean Bean S Sed Saed ed and for the production of oil oU and meal have lave brought about greatly Increased prices The seed of the best hest varieties of SO soy beans Is selling for to 4 1 1 per bushel l of GO CO pounds As the merits merIts mer- mer Its ts of ot the crop nr are better appreciated the demand Is not likely to diminish Utilizing soy bean seed as feed Is distinctly distinctly dis dis- profitable In addition to the value alue of the seed the benefit to heland the he theland theland land on which the beans have been grown and the use of the thrashed vines as a source of feed must be taken taken taken tak tak- en Into consideration The nv average rage yields of soy bean seed to the acre In various sections of the United States range from about 15 bushels In the northern states to about 25 5 bushels In the northern part of tho tiro cotton belt The average yield In eastern eastern east east- ern em North Carolina the largest seed- seed producing section In rn the countr country I Is about 25 bushels although man many fields produce 35 bushels or more to the acre Maximum yields of 50 O bushels to the acre have been reported from North Carolina and Tennessee fennessee |