RE: [CBQ] Another Old Loco

["'Douglas Harding' doug.harding@iowacentralrr.org [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Hol, regarding your dating. Early April in northern Illinois would have no crops growing at all. Many farmers are still waiting for snow to melt or for fields to dry out so they can begin working the dirt. Based upon the size of the plants in the photo I would suggest July 4^th is a better target date. As to the plants they don’t look like soybeans to me. Soybeans are native to SE Asia and were introduced to the US in 1765 and while grown down south in the 1800’s they did not become a major crop in the upper Midwest until after Henry Ford’s experiments growing the crop in the 1930’s. Soybeans really took off after WWII, displacing sugar beets in upper Midwest.

 

Doug Harding

(an Iowa boy)

www.iowacentralrr.org

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