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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HARVESTING SOY BEANS. 
The method of harvesting Soy beans 
will depend on the use that is to be 
made of them. When grazed by sheep 
or cattle it is simply a matter of turn¬ 
ing in the animals. But cattle waste 
much of the crop, hence if grazed down 
by this class of stock the animals must 
be removed when they have satisfied 
their needs. Sheep and hogs may be 
given access to the crop at will when 
the season for grazing the crop has 
arrived; of course with hogs that season 
is not until the crop is practically 
mature. Various methods of harvesting 
the crop are practiced, as for instance 
cutting with the field mower, self-rake 
reaper, the binder, the corn harvester 
and the bean harvester. Which of these 
modes will answer best depends largely 
upon the way in which the crop is 
grown and the exact use to be made of 
it. The mower is best suited to har¬ 
vesting a crop sown broadcast, and to 
be cut for hay. The binder is best 
adapted to harvesting the silo crop or 
the seed crop, but can only be used 
satisfactorily in harvesting tall-growing 
varieties. The self-rake reaoer can 
best be used in cutting the crop for hay 
for seed, for soiling or for silage. The 
bean harvester is only used when har¬ 
vesting the crop for seed, and is ex¬ 
ceptionally well adapted to gathering 
small-growing varieties. The corn har¬ 
vester can best be used when the beans 
are grown in the line of the row with 
corn for silage, but may also be used in 
harvesting tall-growing varieties grown 
in rows without admixture. 
At the season of early bloom the cut¬ 
ting of the crop for soiling may begin 
and be continued until it reaches ma¬ 
turity. The crop is at its best for soil¬ 
ing when the pods are forming. For 
silage it can be harvested any time from 
full bloom to early maturity, but cut¬ 
ting toward the latter stage is prefer¬ 
able, since more grain is then furnished 
and the greater woodiness of the stems 
is less objectionable when fed as silage 
then when fed as soiling food. For 
hay the crop should be cut when in full 
bloom, or probably a little later, but 
assuredly before the leaves begin to fail. 
In my experience in growing Soy beans 
I find that they are not very easily 
cured for hay. If the plants are much 
exposed to the sun after being cut many 
of the leaves will be lost, and the stems 
do not readily lose their moisture. Much 
handling in the curing is also attended 
with a heavy loss of leaves. My aim in 
harvesting the crop is to cut when free 
from dew, to rake when sufficiently 
wilted, and to put up in small cocks, 
narrow and high, until cured. In these 
I find that it is necessary to let the 
plants remain for several days. The 
crop is not nearly so easily damaged 
by rain as cow peas. The average vieid 
of cured hay is about two tons per acre. 
On very rich soil, however, I have pro¬ 
duced 2 1/2 tons per acre. As the stalks 
yield up their moisture very slowly, 
there must be no haste in storing, or 
the mass will heat and spoil. This, 
however, may be prevented by storing 
the bean hay and some kind of cereal 
straw in alternate layers. This will also 
improve the palatability of the straw. 
The hay has high feeding value when 
properly cured. In thrashing Soy beans 
the flail may be used for a small crop, 
but a large crop requires the use of a 
bean thrasher or grain separator. The 
bean thrasher does the work well, but is 
slow. The grain separator when used 
calls for a readjustment of the concaves 
and the teeth of the cylinder to prevent 
breaking the crop. On good land I have 
had a yield fully as high as 20 bushels 
per acre. I find the beans will heat 
and spoil if put in deep bins. 
Illinois. W. H. UNDERWOOD. 
“Did you manage to raise anything 
worth eating?” “I think so,” replied 
the amateur gardener. “The cutworms 
and caterpillars all thought well of it.” 
—Washington Star. 
HELD UP FOR GARDEN SEED. 
E. J. Ecio, N. Y .—I enclose a card 
or letter which I have just received. This 
is the second one I have received ; the first 
one I consigned to the waste paper. I 
never received a seed of any kind from this 
person; I never knew there was such a 
person in existence until I received notice 
that I owed him for seeds he had sent. 
R. N.-Y.—It seems that a number 
of our people received the following 
card: 
Dear Friend—Last Spring we sent you a 
package of garden s<>ed&, asking you to 
select such as you could use and return 
the balance, enclosing postage to pay re¬ 
turn. We have not. up to this time, re¬ 
ceived the seeds or the pay for same. We 
calk'd your attention to this once before. 
We are loath to believe you mean to be 
dishonest, but attribute it purely to an 
oversight or neglect upon your part. 
Twenty-fire cents is a small amount, but at 
the price we sell our seeds, we must have 
our pay for all of them, to make a fair 
profit. You are among the very few who 
have not remitted, and we trust you will 
do so at once, and not make it necessary 
for us to again call your attention to this 
small matter, or to resort to extreme meas¬ 
ures to get our pay. We shall expect to 
hear from you WITHIN TEN DATS and 
shall take no further action until this 
time expires. Hoping to receive the money 
or a satisfactory explanation of the delay, 
we are, - 
This carries the earmarks of a fake 
and a bluff, and we wrote asking this 
seedsman what he means. He replies 
that he has a regular plan of sending 
seeds to his patrons, letting them select 
what they want. They pay for what 
they take and return the rest. He 
says they also send seeds to strangers 
—taking names at random from various 
sources. These strangers are supposed 
to select seeds and pay for them. This 
man sends a collection of letters from 
people who say they were pleased with 
his seed. That is all right, but it is 
no excuse for sending a threatening 
note like the above. For that is just 
how the average citizen takes such a 
communication. He thinks he is being 
held up for 25 cents. Some of them 
will foolishly pay it rather than be 
annoyed further. They ought not to 
do so. This man cannot compel you 
to take his seeds if you do not want 
them, and he cannot make you pay for 
them if you do not use them. It is a 
small game, steering close to blackmail 
in the case of our reader, and should 
never be encouraged by trade. 
PENNSYLVANIA CROPS. 
The season of 1911 is drawing towards 
the end. so that the result in crop produc¬ 
tion can he determined. The season began 
last Fall, when early frosts were not ex¬ 
perienced, and when cold weather appeared 
Winter closed in on farming operations with 
considerable corn remaining unhusked on 
fields, and many acres of potatoes unhar¬ 
vested. The warm weather and late frost 
afforded the Hessian fly a chance to con¬ 
tinue active longer than usual, resulting in 
much infested wheat over a wide area in 
this section. Then late Winter, with alter¬ 
nate freezing and thawing during February 
and March destroyed much of the grain on 
low land, so the crop was very light as a 
whole, and a complete failure in many fields. 
Owing to the inclement weather until late 
Spring crops were planted late, but pro¬ 
gressed favorably until a period of very hot 
dry weather checked all growth, resulting in 
a short potato crop and failure of early 
vegetables. 
Late-planted potatoes are doing fairly 
well since the dry period passed, while am¬ 
ple rains for some time favored late crops, 
so that corn in this section is very good, 
and other crops fair. We had severe 
storms, wind, heavy rains and lightning, 
causing crop damage and much loss through 
fires ignited by lightning. As a whole, the 
season was one of extremes so far, with 
favorable prospects for second-crop hay, 
buckwheat and corn. On elevated land 
apples are a fair crop, pears plentiful and 
berries produced well in season, while now 
huckleberries are gathered and shipped in 
large quantities from the mountains around 
the coal measures. This affords extra in¬ 
come for the mining population during the 
season when the mines are on half time. 
Poultry raising was more successful than 
usual, and the turkey flocks not so much 
afflicted with black-head, very destructive 
during a number of years in this section. 
Most plowing for grain crops is finished; 
what remains are truck and potato fields 
to be seeded with grain. Wheat sowing will 
be delayed on account of the damage by the . 
fly; unless frosts occur early it will be de¬ 
layed until late September. The potato 
stalk borer did much damage to the early 
crop, and from reports seems to prevail 
through a number of counties in Eastern 
Pennsylvania. This section is passing 
through a wet spell of weather, now having 
five days in succession of rain and drizzle, 
with little sunshine. 
Apples are dropping, reducing the Winter 
crop, especially on cultivated ground; the 
fruit ripens early and is consequently unfit 
for storage. The writer’s observation is 
for some years that cultivation hastens ma¬ 
turity on our trees. While cultivation is 
advocated by many writers, it does not suit 
tills locality and shale lands. 
The county Granges are active, holding 
picnics in various places, with the Pomona 
meeting shortly, and a Summer Institute on 
September 8-9 at a country church several 
miles from this station. Our county and 
State exjKmses are moving upward, seem¬ 
ingly under the impression that farmers are 
too prosperous; politicians and officeholders 
strive to get and keep the reputed great 
wealth of the farmers from them for fear of 
their getting too wealthy. w. H. S. 
Pine Grove, Pa. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Toronto, Canada, Fair, August 20-Sep- 
tember 11. 
Connecticut Fair, Hartford, September 
4-9. 
Maine State Fair, Auburn, September 4-7. 
Beekeepers’ Association, Charter Oak, 
Conn., September 4-9. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 11-16. 
Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee, Septem¬ 
ber 12-1 a 
Illinois State Fair, Springfield, September 
29-October 7. 
New Haven. Conn., Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, September 13. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, Torch 
Hill, September 19. 
Connecticut Horticultural Society, Hart¬ 
ford, September 19-20. 
Vermont State Fair, White River Junc¬ 
tion, September 19-22. 
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, September 
18-27. 
New Jersey Fair, Trenton, September 25- 
29. 
Connecticut State Fair. Berlin, September 
26-29. 
Connecticut Bornological Society, Berlin, 
September 26. 
Virginia State Fair, Richmond, October 
9-14. 
New England Fruit Show. Boston, Mass., 
October 23-28. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Ill., Oc¬ 
tober 26-No vein her 4. 
National Creamery Butter Makers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. Chicago, November 1-3. 
Indiana Apple Show, Indianapolis, No¬ 
vember 6-11. 
Massachusetts Corn Show, Springfield, 
Mass., November 11-18. 
Boston Chamber of Commerce Agricul¬ 
tural Exhibit October 2-31. 
National Apple Show, Spokane, Wash., 
November 27-30. 
Tile for Well Curb —I have received 
many helpful ideas from your paper. One 
of them was the use of 24-inch glazed tile 
for well curbing. I had my well dug and 
stone drawn and then, substituted the tile- j 
which has given entire satisfaction, and I i 
see no reason why it should not be perma- i 
nent. a. s. h. 
September 9, 
Whex you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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