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ABOUT THE SOY BEAN HARVESTING FOR GRAIN Farmers More and More Are Planting This Valuable Article DEPT. WILL ISSUE A FARMERS' BULLETIN Information on This Subject Called to Attention of All Farmers. Washington, I). C.?For the information of farmers who are beginning to grow soy beans for grain rather than for hay, and who are unfamiliar with the handling of the plants under the former conditions, the United States Department of Agriculture will shortly publish Farmers' Bulletin. ''Harvseting Soy Beans for Seed." The demand for these seeds for use in the production of oil, feed cake, and other bean products is rapidly increasing and the farmers of the United States are preparing to meet this demand. The character of growth, the uniform maturing habits, and the heavy seed yields of the soy beans, says th? bulletin, contribute to the e; se of harvesting and recommend the plants foi seed production. The many disadvantages which attend the harvesting of cowpeas for seed are not common to the soy bean. When grown foi grain alo.ie the shattering of the pods of the soy bean is a serious fault and inexperienced growers are likely to sustain a heavy loss of seed through Inch of knowledge and improper lum u ling of the soy-bean plant. The shattering varies with the varieties of the Ik an. It is well, however, with mo st varieties to give special attention as maturity approaches to prevent serious losses from this cause. Time of Harvesting. In general, the best time to harvest, except where special bean harvesters arc used, is when about three-fourths of the leaves have fallen and most C. the pods have turned color. If cul at an earlier stage the plant - are dif f'cult to cure properly, and the yield t ill he lessened materially on account of the immature grain. On the 6'hOV' la nd, if the plants are allowed to become too ripe the pods will shatter before being cut, and much seed will bo lest. When special harvesters are used to gather the seed, the plants riust r^ach full maturity to obtain the best results. : _ I Method* of Harvestir.g. Various methods of harvesting t:\e c Cp are in use in different sections where the soy bean is grown largely f?r seed production. Tbc crop may by cut with ordinary mowing machines., self-rake reapers, self binders, or ev i with scythes, corn knives, or sickles The beans: also r y bo harvested with a special bean 1 . vester which gatherr the grain from the standing plants. When tl e plants are cut before maturity they are cured in shocks and allowed to remain in the field unti1 a convenient time for thrashing. T1 thoroughly dry they may he house! and thrashed later. - t Thrashing. '' Thrashing may he done with an ordinary graii*. sf pavator, but if this iv; chine is urrd i; must lie altered som what to i revet the ("'ackine, <>," tlv beans. In some ca rs a so vial set -! thin conca.ves is u.ed for thrashin bians a1 <1 in other instances some o (Or. iirn rr''Vfivffl. ('.(),? judgment on pad of the thrasher man will enable him to adjust tie ordinary separator so that the bean: may bo thrashed with little splitting Special pea and bean separators ar on ti e market and their use may I) advisable when largo acreage of the beans are to be handled. T thoroughly dry, soy beans can b thrashed with a flail. If only a sma acreage is to he thrashed?an acre o r,o?this method is practicable an economical. In a few sections a cor shredder has been used to advantag i i thrashing beans. If properly use and dried out, the beans shell 01 ver> /cadily with such a machine. The straw obtained from thrashir soy beans for seed is a valuable for for all kind4' of stock. In many so ;ons the straw if bailed at the tin of thrashing and sold to liveryme dairymen, and stock feeders. Storage of Seed. As soy-bean seed spoils rather en ilv if net properly handled, care si bo exercised in curing and storin After the beans arc thrashed th< should be watched carefully to avo heating and molding. When tho eucrhly dry there is no such dang< The best plan, perhaps, is to spre the seeds out on a floor immediate USE MORE CORN | AND CONSERVE FOOD Columbia, S. C.?The greater utilization of corn products is advocated by David R. Coker, of Hartsvillc, F< Oil Administrator for South Carolina, in a letter to George R. Benton, of Savannah, member of the Southern Hotel Association. Mr. Coker's letter follows: "Yours of the 3d to hand, and I appreciate the offer of your Association, through you, to cooperate with the Food Administration cf South Carolina. I think of one way in which all Southern hotels can be of tremendous assistance, and that is the greater utilization of corn products. There is no better breakfast food than oldfashioned Southern hominy, or grits, v hen served in Southern style with butter or gravy. "The right kinds of corn bread are always appreciated and enjoyed by I Southern people, but unfortur.atley they hardly ever get them in Southern hotels. I was delighted to sec recently in a small Southern hotel, small, crisp, unleavened corn flakes and I noticed that every one at all the j tables was eating them with relish. Corn muffins are very palatable, and j highly nutritious, but 1 practically' never see anything called Corn muffins served unless it is heavily loaded with sugar, and sometimes with flai". nvf i.n/ifc VI xr Fti>anlr f'n cf I ?i ! V V/ I I I I VAU (IV. CO. 1*4 %V Ul VMIA I IVH V M I. I Columbia this morning was ruined 'ay a bite of nice looking corn muffin that was as sweet as cake and flavored with lemon extract. Two weekigo in Washington at a Hoover lunch sweet corn muffins were served, and .bo Southern representatives there all commented on its great inferiority to Southern home products. "I think many hotels could to advantage reduce the portions served. | Signs could also be put up in (lining .corns urging patrons not to order, everything on a table d'hote menu.! and waiters should be instructed to' insist on patrons ordering what they J ish, and not saying "Bring me a good dinner," and then leave half of l on the table. "The people generally will cooperate with the hotels and restaurants in effecting a saving of food products and will recognize the necessity for . onsible rules. 1 believe the Horn* economics Departments of the Sou j thern States will eagerly cocpeiato with your Association in furnishing! palatable recipes for corn breads an. ' muffins, and I hope you will got r ' U Uc!? with them. * ' - - J I would suggest that placards urg ing the use of fish instead of so much ; neat be placed in restaurants rm. i! dining rooms, and that hotels special '/.L on a good variety of sea food. "Yours very truly, "David R. Cokcr, , "Food Administrator for Sout' Carolina." Q ! Wood's Feeds I Rosen Rye : The most vigorous <*row- ?1 ing end productive of Seed Ryes. Stools out better, si: perior quality of grain, and destined, in our opinion, to tak the place of all other Weed's Fall Catalog Ciivofi tiill '.I'-scr'^fion r*v'. 'nfnrmu ti >n, ar.d also ai>ou. t?<?; L^si erer* -) Wf'I~ A T C ATS l-tf - . jV V i?Xl<wA ? A j Vv .. A A. u.'.i . nc.l 'i4.> \ Ac:;. /? V-\ ?) * . j -I ,-t? > ' *> /*r U <?*/"? iv. >. #. * I W. W ? *' * a r \Y":* * ; M* 'CrJj .j* and price ; o :vV d. , \ -T- 1-vf 1# 'f'M-v I. i / ., r.Vv fr'vnvr"*vr r? )fy,- * 1/.-. ^ i s An urgent appeal is being tdivula*. f ei for 1,000 women employees at tlv r Charleston navy yard to operate cloi. 11 ing factory machines, under orders t< ir furnish all cotton outer garments fo d the sailors in the navy. 5 COLDS & LaGRIPPi lt 5 or 6 doses 666 will brer. any case of Chills & Fever, Cole - & LaGrippc; it acts on the live m1 better than Calomel and does nc uripe or sicken. Price 25c. 10 M' after thrashing, and shovel them ov< from time to time until they are thoi uoghly dry. After this they may 1 s- safely put into sacks or bins, T1 ho storeroom should be dry and with g. free circulation of air. Soy-bean sc ay loses its visibility rather rapidly, ar id i ic is not safe to hold seed for plantin u- purposes more than two seasons. T1 ?r. seeds of the soy bean, unlike those < ad; the cowpea, are rarely attacked I dy weevils or other grain insects. ??? } CATBIRD, BROWN TH Brown Thrasher?Above, Bright Redd Flanks Spottei (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) According to a new bulletin issued by the department of agriculture, entitled "Some Common IMrds Useful to the Farmer" (farmers' bulletin Nc. 630), the wren, brown thrasher and catbird are three very useful neighbors to the grower of crops or fruits. The diminutive house wreh frequents barns and gardens, and particularly old orchards in which the trees are partially decayed. He makes his nest in a hollow where perhaps a woodpecker had a domicile the year before, but he is a pugnacious character, and if he happens to fancy one of the boxes put up for bluebirds he does not hesitate to take it. He is usually not slow to avail himself of boxes, gourds, tin cans, or empty jars placed for his accommodation. In food habits the house wren is entirely beneficial. He may be said to live upon animal food alone, for an ^SSlssnmim ' House Wren?Above, RecJdish Brown; Below, Soiled White Wings and Tail Barred. examination of 8S stomachs showed thaf 9S per cent of the contents was , made up of insects or their allies, and only 2 per cent was vegetable food, including bits of grass and similar matter, evidently taken by accident with the insects. Half ot* this food consisted of grasshoppers and beetles; | the remainder of caforpllV*,8, tugs and i spiders. As the wren is a prolific j breeder, frequently rearing in a season from 12 to 16 young, a family of these birds must cause considerable reduction in the number of insects in a t garden. Wrens are industrious foragers, searching every tree, shrub and vine for caterpillars, and examining every post and rail of the fence and every cranny in the wall for insects or spiders. The house wren is only one of a [ numerous group of small birds of similar habits. There are within the limits I V i ^ Catbird?Slate Color, Pale Jj of the United States 34 species anr |j aubspeciet of wrena, occupying mort or less completely the uhole countrj '' from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Wit! * the exception of the marsh wrens, the: all appear to prefer some cozy nooi for a nesting site, and, as it happens the farm buildings afford just the plac< desired. This has led several of tlv wrens to seek out the habitations o ' man, and he is benefited by their dc l( struction of noxious insects. No sp< cles of wren has been accused of hartr 4<l and their presence should be encoui u\ aged about every farm, ranch, villag ijr or suburban residence. u> The brown thrasher breeds througl ,,f out the United States east of th great plains, and winters in the Sout -Atlantic and Gulf slates, it occasioi 1 RASHER AND WREN | | ish Brown; Below, White; Breast ana d With Brown. ally visits the garden or orchard, but nests in swamps or in groves standing upon low ground. The thrasher's favorite time for singing is in early J morning, when, perched on the top! of a tall bush or low tree, it gives an exhibition of vocal powers which would do credit to a mocking bird. ! Indeed, in the South, where the latter bird is abundant, the thrasher is known as the sandy mocker. The food of the brown thrasher consists of both fruit and insects. An examination of 6il6 stomachs showed oG per cent of vegetable and G4 of animal food, practically all insects. and mostly taken in spring before fruit was ripe. Half the insects were beetles and the remainder chiefly grasshoppers, caterpillars, bugs and spiders. A few predacious beetles were eaten, but on the whole the work of the species as an insect destroyer may be considered beneficial. Eight per cent of its food is made up of fruits like raspberries or currants which are or may be cultivated, but the raspberries at least are as likely to belong to wild as to cultivated varieties. Grain, made up mostly of scattered kernels of oats and corn, is merely a trifle, amounting to only 3 per cent. Though some of the corn ! may be taken from newly planted fields, it is amply paid for by the destruction of May beetles which are eaten at the same time. The rest of the food consists of wild fruit or' seeds- Taken all in all. the brown thrasher is a useful bird, and prob-, ably does as good work in its so-' eluded retreats* as it v.ould about the garden, for the swamps and grooves, an? no doubt the breeding grounds of many insects that migrate thence to attack the crops of the farmer. The catbird, like the thrasher. Is a lover of swamps tfhd delights to make its home in a tangle of wild grapevines, greenbriors, and shrubs, where it is safe from attack end can find its favorite rood in abundance. It ir. found throughout tlie United States west to the Rocky mountains, and extends also from Washington. Idaho; and tTtah northward into the provinces of Canada. It winters in th southed st'?*r,s, Cuba. Mox'.o a" , Central America! Reports from the Mississippi ve.l'e.1 indicate that the catbird is sometimes | a serious annoyance to fruit growers. The reason for such reports may possibly be found in the frmt that on the prairies fruit-b ir >irrbs, which, afford so large a part of this bird's food, are conspicuously absent. With the settlement of this region comes an extensive planting of orchards, vineyards and small-fruit gardens, which furnish shelter and nesting sites for the catbird as well as for other spe ''#? ill*# X Below; Under Rump Chestnut. ! ctes. There is in consequence a larjri i increase in the numbers of the bird* t but no corresponding gain in the sur i ply of native fruits upon which the j were accustomed to feed. IJnde c these circumstances what is mor i, natural than for the birds to turn t e cultivated fruits for their food? Th e remedy is obvious: Cultivated fruit f can bi? protected by the simple exped > ent of planting the wild species whic ?- are preferred by the birds. Some e: i, periments with catbirds in captivit r- show that the Russian mulberry I e preferred to any cultivated fruit. v Feed for Balancing Ration. e Every locality in the country ca h produce a kind of feed capable < n* balancing up the corn ration. v^?vr*F^ \!V^fV WP**?.* V IINQOlENT MRS. LESTERl! m^mmmmmmtmmmmm^*^"^mm^mmm^m^ m ; By OSBORN JONES. Kvcry one agreed that pretty Mrs. Lest*", s besetting sm wus indolence. "Of course, any woman could have pretty hands ami well-tnunicured nails if she didn't ever have to do anything," | said Mrs. Landis, tlie boarding-house , keeper, to the old maid school teacher,! who replied promptly: | "Yes, and any wdamn could seem | light-hearted If she didn't have a care . or trouble in the world." As a matter of fact. Mrs. Lester was indolent. Hut she was not altogether happy. | If any one had asked Mrs. Lester why site boarded instead of keeping ; house she would have said it was be-1 cause Iter husband chose to live that way. They hud always done It in the three years of their married life. The boarding house was convenient to the' big factory where her husband worked and houses were not plentiful. Hut | sometimes a single tear lingered in those soft brown eyes of hers and j there was a Meeting note of sadness in her voice. j Then came the time when Mrs. Lau ills' son Intel pneumonia at college, it didn't prove to be a hard case, hut it was sufficiently alarming to make It necessary for Mrs. Lund is to puck her wicker suitcase and betake Iter portly person to the college tow h. She1 Slopped long enough to give flte cook directions' for ordering and to commit the cafe of the itO boarders to her keeping. Then she Went to Mrs. Lester's room ami told Iter. "I know 1 can't do much," said Mrs. Lester, "bdt It tanked ii lot of Work for poor Martha. Let me do the ordering while you are gone." j This happened Just after breakfast, so that Mrs. Lester went marketing thai morning at nine ami bought even more economically than would Mrs. Latulis herself, and no one at the hoarding house knew the difference. For Mrs. Lester, though she said nothing of it even to lied hushand, was pleased with her achievement. LeMel returned to the factory oMiee that night, and Mrs. Lester sat alone. It | was eleven when she first heard Mar-' tha's call for help?poor, fat Marth... ; whose age was beginning to tell in an I occasional heart attack. Only Mrs. Lester heard the call for help and went tiptoeing up to the garret bedroom to be of assistance. And then came the doctor, who as-1 sured Mrs. Lester that a few days of rest would pip Martha buck on the Working list again. By the time Mr. Lester came back from the factory Mrs. Lester was tucked in among her pillows?as reposeful as if she had lain there all the evening. In the morning she slipp?*d from her room at fixe?blaiail.x lying to her husband that she was cold and had goue to rest in a warmer room tiiat had recently been vacated. And as Mrs. Lester seldom look breakfast with her husband, lie nexer guessed that while he was eating she was working furiously in the kitchen, nor dreamed that the coffee and cel'eal, bacon, eggs and multins nil l lu; result of lus wj/e's efforts Willi ihe cookbook and slu\ o. Alter breakfast Mrs. Lester ordered <piiekl\ ami (h nl\ over lhe phone, and then mine the siupemloiis undertaking ol gelling 'JU lunelieons ready for tlie men nt the fneioi"^ by 11 '1 hen enine dinner, iiiol though Mrs. Lester's arms uehed Srom the unaccustomed lahor, and though she was almost dropping nndei the task, she was supremely liappy. Site had left a note ! in 11ei husband's room saying that she' i had gone to spend the day with a friend and would not he home till nine, and at that hour she stole into Mrs. Landis' room long enough to put on Iter big cloak and hat that she had left there for that purpose. Then, pinch* ihg a little color into her tired face, she tripped smilingly into her husband's room. It had been a wonderful day of achieveiu* ut. and she could hardly wait till Mrs. Landis returned ?she was due at ten that night?to hear w hat she would say. "Such a wonderful day as I have had I" she said to In r husband by way | of explaining the happiness that she knew must be shining from her face. "Wonderful days," mocked her husband ; "yes, and I have been slaving at the allien. ('iirlie. I'm getting tired of tills?.just a little. I'd like to 11live a little house of our own, hut 1 don't dhre to surest if. You're' too muelt I of a doll. It's worrying over that bei sides worrying over the business that 1 keeps tne so low-hearted." "And you have wanted to keep lions# I and haven't told me," she whispered "And for all these months and year? j I've longed for something to do nut i didn't dare ask you?" Hut that was all she had time t< r? say. for Mrs. Lnndls rushed throng) u the half-opened door. She had arrive* >. and Martha* now down stairs for th< y first time, had told her. rj "Bless your heart," j^ie said, puttinj e ner inouieri.v arms nrounu me wire o "Say, Mr. Lester, with a wife that cai el eater, order and oook for 30 and no g' let any one know about It, you ough j to be as proud as Punch. Rut that' h the way with some women. They'r i.\ lucky at everything they attempty; from running a hoarding house t Is making a man happy." And as Mrs. Landia went out of th room again the husband took his tire little wife in his arms. "She's rlgh' tn! 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