Soy Bean Experiment
AN experimental planting of the soybean is to ‘be undertaken in the Pelorus district, Marlborough, with a sample of the bean sent irotn Mi. Henry Ford’s farm factory in Canada to Mr. F. Hcaly, M.P. The samples arrived in Blemheim recently. Tho bean has wonderful feeding value; it is claimed in Canada and America that it follows closely on lucerne, or alfalfa. For a hay crop it is extraordinary rich in proteins. To produce soy bean hay of the greatest digestibility with the highest $ mid, the crop should be -cut when tho pods are well developed, and have reached one half of their normal growth. When harvesting for seed purposes and threshing tho time t,o cut is when the bean is nearly ripe. Air. Healy’s sons arc now preparing the ground at “Tho Wilderness,” Pelorus district, consisting of rich river silt, for the growing of this stranger to New Zealand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18207, 30 September 1933, Page 14
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153Soy Bean Experiment Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18207, 30 September 1933, Page 14
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