Show I I I Avoid Loss of Soy SoyBean Bean Seed Cost of Harvesting Reduced third One by Combined Harvester Losses of ot soy bean benn seed at har harvest st time are greatly reduced ed and the cost cust of ot harvesting the crop Is lowered about third one-third a bushel from what It Is with ordinary methods when a combined ester har thresher harvester her is used to gather the beans benns according to tests made by the farm mechanics department department depart depart- ment college of ot agriculture University sits sity of ot Illinois Use of ot the combined thresher harvester thresher r-thresher Is the most recent method of ot harvesting the soy bean seed crop Cop To date the Job fob of harvestIng harvesting harvest harvest- Ing soy beans for seed or commercial purposes h has s been the biggest problem that the soy-bean soy grower has had to meet In fact tact the grief encountered I In In harvesting the seed crop has pre pre- prevented prevented vented a n more rapid Increase Inthe acreage of ot this legume according to I. I P P. P Blauser of the college farm mechanics mechanics mechanics me me- department The harvesting har problem will become more Important as ns the commercial possibilities of the soy oy bean are developed eloped Methods of Harvesting I A survey sur made In Illinois gave ga the following tollO methods which were used to toI I harvest est the tile 1024 so soybean soy bean seed crop Binder 01 61 per cent mower mow 32 per percent percent percent cent pickers 8 S per cent self-rake self reaper reaper 3 per cent and pullers 1 per percent cent The same year sa 80 per cent used grain separators per cent ent used special bean threshers and 5 per cent used combined harvester threshers The first combine In Illinois Illinois' was used b by Garwood Brothers of Stonington Stoning Stoning- P ton in October 1924 to harvest acres of soy beans machine made a successful demonstration Is evident from the fact that seven se-en combines combines com com- bines were sold In Illinois by July 1925 5 and twelve by October 1925 j Tests rests have hare been made of the differ ditler- ent eat methods of harvesting soy beans and losses looses in some cases were found to be as high as 45 per cent Tests of the combined thresher harvester have nave given ghen a loss of from 4 p per r cent to 10 per pcr cent this past season even en though the weather conditions were extremely extreme ly Iy bad Beans Deans harvested with the combine gave a much lower moisture percentage and also were of much better quality The combine can work worl from two to five fi da days s 's sooner than the threshing machine because the beans dry out much more rapidly standing than In shocks There Thele are arc still some fields of ot beans In shock waiting to be threshed I Work of Illinois Machines Each combine in Illinois l has as harvested harvested har har- I vested ested from to acres acres of soy soybeans soybeans beans this past season Twenty to 30 acres of so soy beans can be harvested a aday aday day with two tv men one to drive the tractor to pull the machine and one oneto oneto oneto to operate the combine Two to three men and teams are needed to take care of the threshed beans A combine should cut from to acres of grain each year ear to keep the overhead charges an acre as low lowas lowas lowns as ns possible There here are a limited number number num num- ber her of farms that have that many acres of ts beans to harvest hanest each year However the same machine was us used cd quite successfully In Illinois to harvest wheat oats sweet clover cloer red clover er and timothy Even then If It the combined acreage Is too small to Justify the purchase of ot a n combine several several several sev sev- eral farmers can go together and purI purchase purchase pur pur- chase one The combine user In Illinois avers that he cannot get along without It ItIn ItIn Itin In harvesting soy beans |