Show avoid loss of soy bean seed cost of harvesting reduced one third by combined harvester thresher losses los of soy bonn bean seed at harvest timo time are arc greatly reduced and the lie cost of harvesting tile the crop Is toweled about one third a bushel busha from what it Is with ordinary methods nieth when a combined harvester thresher Is used to rather gather the lie berins beans recording according to tests ande by the farm mechanics department college of agriculture fits bit of illinois use of tile the combined lint vaster thresher Is tile the most recent method of harvesting tile the soybean soy bean beall peed feed crop to late date the job of harvesting soy eoy heans beans for seed or commercial purposes kes tins has been the biggest problem that tile soy hoy beail grower lias has had to meet in fact tile grief encountered in ili harvesting the seed crop lias has prevented a more rapid increase in fit tile acreage of this legume legun le according to 1 I P Il Illi lauser of the college farm me chanles department the harvesting problem will become more Import important tint its as tile lie commercial possibilities of the lie soy benn are developed methods of harvesting A survey made tit in illinois gave the following methods method 3 which were used to harvest the 1024 1924 soybean soy bean betin seed crop hinder bluder 01 per cent 32 per cent pickers 3 per cent self rii rake reaper 3 per cent and pullers bullers pul lers 1 per cent the samp year SO 80 per cent use used grain separators per cent use used special hean bean threshers thre tind 0 5 per cent used combined harvester threshers the first combine in illinois was used by garwood brothers of stonington in october 1024 to harvest 1 12 I aaros of soy bonus beans that the machine mado made n successful demonstration Is evident from tile the filet fact that seven combines were sold in illinois by july and twelve by october ll 11 i tests rests linae been made of the diner ent methods of harvesting soy heans beans till and ilses in ili sonic some cases were found to lie be ns as high as 45 per cent tests of the lie combined harvester lint vester thresher have given it loss of front from 4 per cent to 10 per cent tills this past season even though the weather condit conditions lons were extremely ba bad iteana cleans harvested with the combine save gave it much lower moisture percentage nil and also were of much better quality the coni hine can worl work from two to ive five days sooner than the threshing machine because the beans dry out much aniol more 0 rapidly still standing anding than in shocks there are arc still sonic some fields field of beans in shock walting waiting to be threshed h res lied work of ruch each combine in illinois has harvested frow from LOO 00 to acres of soy beans tills past season twenty to 30 neres of soy bonns beans can he be harvested it lay with will two to men dien one to drive arhe tile tractor to pull tile machine and one to operate the combine two to three men dien and teams tire are needed to take care or of tile the threshed bearis A combine sl bould cut from to 00 acres of grain each year beir to keep keel the over overhead liend charges cli arges nil all acre its as low as possible there tire are it a limited number of farms that have that many acres of soy poy beans to harvest each avar 3 ear Ilo however wever tho the same machine was used quite successfully in illinois to harvest hanest wheat ili oat oats sweet clover cloer red clover clo erand find timothy even nan then if the combined acreage Is too small to justify tile purchase of a combine several farmers can go together unit and purchase one the user in illinois avers aers that lio ho cannot get along without it in harvesting soy beans |