The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 20, 1917, Image 6
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".
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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."
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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.
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} 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
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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
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^ 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
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RASHER AND WREN |
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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
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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.
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n* balancing up the corn ration.
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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! You have made me happy and I at
proud," ne whispered.
iCopyright, 1917. by tbe MeClure Newspi
, 9?r Syndicate.)
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