Show moisture in beans should be watched good plan to note condition and appearance with thousands of bushels of newly harvested soy beans going into storage at tills this time of the year J 0 hackleman university of illinois warns that they must contain less than 15 or 10 per cent of moisture to be safe from spoilage tills this Is the maximum moisture percentage ns as determined by research rech ach sear ch and experience under which soy beans can be stored with safety soy beans that are cut too green or with td high a moisture content will go off air condition leand yand be cut severely in grade n addition to moisture content farmers can control three other factors which determine the grade of soy beans these are condition and appearance pe arance broken or split beans and foreign material As tor for condition and appearance soy soy beans like corn should look good that Is be free of mold have no insect injury and as far as possible be clean and show marketability they must be cool a point which Is directly correlated with the question of moisture content the percentage of split or broken beans Is likely to mount if there Is excessive cylinder speed in threshing concalves concaves con caves set too close too many teeth or excessively dry beans the fourth factor that la Is langly under the control of the farmer and thres lierman Is the amount of foreign material this Is just what the n name ame indicates sticks chaft chaff pods stems and dirt |