The Arkansas Farmer

	Bu. per	Seed	Tons	Hay per	Acre
	Acre	Av. for	for	Av. for	Ran
	for 1933	4 Yrs.	1933.	4 Yrs.	4 Yrs
Mam. Brown	19.1	17.6	1.83	1.95	12
Mam. Yellow	16.1	16.6	2.56	2.00	10
Laredo	19.3	16.5	2.29	2.15	7
Delta 607	17.1	16.5	1.63	1.42	16
Ozark 37272	13.4	16.1	1.20	1.26	19
Biloxi	23.0	15.8	2.93	2.46	3
So. Prolific	17.5	15.8	2.17	1.91	13
Delta 6677	21.3	15.4	2.65	1.93	11
Delta 6114	21.3	15.3	2.63	2.32	5
Chiquita	16.7	15.3	2.73	2.08	9
Tanloxi	22.7	15.2	3.33	2.65	2
Delta 6676	22.2	15.2	3.09	2.21	6
Delta 6679	20.3	14.2	2.77	2.12	8
Wilson	13.8	14.0	1.29	1.21	20
Virginia	15.9	13.9	1.47	1.33	17
Morse	10.0	12.7	1.69	1.55	15
Otootan	10.3	12.0	3.54	3.05	1
Midwest	9.4	11.9	1.43	1.28	18
Loxitan	18.5	11.4	3.50	2.31	4
Manchu	8.2	11.1	1.14	1.04	22
Illini	8.5	10.7	1.17	1.05	21
Ito San	9.9	9.9	1.25	1.01	23
Green Mung	2.3	5.5	.97	1.74	14
Arksoy	19.2	17.8*	1.45	1.91 $ \dagger $
Tokio	19.8	17.4*	2.20	2.27 $ \dagger $
Delnoshat	19.7	18.0 $ \dagger $	2.19	2.03 $ \dagger $
Mamredo	15.4	14.8 $ \dagger $	1.56	1.60 $ \dagger $
Peking	10.5	11.6 $ \dagger $	1.36	1.41 $ \dagger $
Delsta	13.7	13.7 $ \dagger $	1.62	1.62 $ \dagger $
White Biloxi	26.2	26.2 $ \dagger $	2.88	2.88 $ \dagger $
Mamloxi	26.3	26.3 $ \dagger $	1.14	3.14 $ \dagger $
91425	16.3	16.3 $ \dagger $	1.72	1.72 $ \dagger $

of	Relative	Character
Beans	Maturity.	of Hay.
Brown	Med. Early	Coarse
Yellow	Late	Medium
Black	Early	Fine
Yellow	Early	Coarse
Brown	Early	Coarse
Chocolate	Late	Coarse
Yellow	Medium	Fine
Yellow	Med. Late	Coarse
Yellow	Med. Late	Coarse
Yellow	Medium	Fine
Brown	Med. Early	Coarse
Yellow	Med. Late	Coarse
Yellow	Late	Coarse
Black	Med. Late	Medium
Brown	Med. Late	Fine
Yellow	Medium	Medium
Black	Medium	Fine
Yellow	Medium	Coarse
Black	Medium	Coarse
Yellow	Medium	Fine
Yellow	Medium	Fine
Green	Med. Late	Very Coarse
Lt. Yellow	Med. Late	Coarse
Gr'nish Y'	Medium	Coarse
Yellow	Late	Coarse
Yellow	Late	Coarse
Yellow	Med. Late	Fine
Black	Med. Late	Coarse
Yellow	Early	Coarse
Lt. Yellow	Med. Early	Coarse
Yellow	Med. Early	Coarse
Lt. Yellow	Late	Medium

Rice Branch
Reports on Beans

Arksoy Proved Best Bean Producer Over 4-Year Period-
Otootan Was Best for Hay.

THE Rice Branch Experiment Station
at Stuttgart has conducted
during the past four years a series of
very interesting tests on soy beans,
attempting to establish the varieties
best suited to needs, soil and climate
in the rice belt and Arkansas in general.

Thirty-two commercial varieties of
beans were used and studies
were
made on bushel yield in seed, hay in
tons per acre, relative maturity and
character of hay.

This experiment in 1933 was planted
on land previously cropped to rice,
and which has grown 20 crops of rice
in the past 26 years. The experiment
was planted in three series or replications,
and the results are given in the
average of the three series. Every
sixth plot was a check of the Mammoth
Brown variety, used to determine
the variation of the soil fertility
in the different fields from one
end of the experiment to the other.

Considering beans grown in the experiment
for three or more years, the
following varieties are outstanding in
bean production: Arksoy, Mammoth
Brown, Tokio, Delta 607, and Laredo.
Among varieties introduced into the
experiment for only one or two years,
the Mamloxi and White Biloxi show
much promise. From the standpoint
of hay production, the Otootan, a late
viney-growing bean of excellent hay
quality, is the outstanding yielder,
with a four-year average yield of
3.05 tons of cured hay per acre. Other
high hay-producing beans are Laredo,
Tanloxi, Loxitan, and Delta Nos. 6114
and 6676, all except Laredo being medium
late to late in maturing. Tokio
shows a good three-year average. All
these except Otootan and Laredo are
indicated as making a coarse hay.

Soybeans have been used extensively
on the Rice Station as a clean-up
crop on old grassy rice land. In every
case the soybeans have been inoculated
with commercial cultures, and
have been given clean cultivation in
three-foot rows.
The Green Mung,
though not a true soybean botanically,
has been treated as such in this experiment.
It has been found that
yields are considerably greater for
rice following soybeans—than where
rice follows rice each year. Complete
records of these experiments are on
file at the Rice Branch Experiment
Station and are available at all times
to all interested farmers.