Show soy bean crop to justin justify comb combine ne advisable only in case where job totals acres of crop prepared by th d art bucci at oa department 0 et t atu 6 the burch purchase e of a combine harvester for harvesting soy goy beans Is advisable only in the tha caso case where the job of threshing per season la is at least acres acrea of soy beans or acres of soy BOY beans and small grain says the bureau burean of agricultural economics united states department of agriculture on such an acreage says the bureau tho the total per acre charge charee including interest and depreciation will be less tor for a ten toot foot combine than for an eig eight ht foot binder and custom threshing cutting low lose average the tha experiments have shown that in straight combining the cutting loss averages about 8 per cent and tho the threshing loss about 2 per cent and that when the crop la Is harvested with a binder and threshed with a stationary i tiona ry sopa separator the tha binder loss averages 20 per cent and the separator loss 3 per cent says the bureau the relatively large harvesting loss losa for or both binders and combines to Is due partly to shattering but the greatest loss Is due to low hanging pods being missed by the cutter bar which cannot be adjusted to cut lower than four inches above the ground investigations InIn in indiana dlana indicate that windrow ing and picking up with a combine Is inadvisable except where ripening la Is not uniform form analysis of combined soy beans lias has shown an average moisture content of 12 per cents cent and on beans threshed from the shock tha the moisture content ran about 15 per cent mot most combined beans are generally below the allowable moisture content of 15 and 10 16 per cent for united states soy bean grades nog 1 and 2 but beans bean which are ara bound and threshed usually run over these amounts to offset this lower moisture content in combined beans it Is necessary to delay combining from three to ten days after ille iha time tor for cutting with a binder harvesting charges charge I 1 reports indicate that combing combine operators harvest about twelve acress acres I 1 in i i a 3 six 1 x b hour day y and u d b binder ln d er operators a ral aou rs da an oper t 0 t ten e n acres re in n about b 0 ut s seven v e hours r the charge for harvesting harvest lne with a ten foot combine ts in about per acre and for an eight foot fool under binder including threshing about 8 this does not include interest and depreciation which are large items on a combine 00 |