The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-08-06

Space on Inside lnsures Ventilation
Essential for Proper Curing.
can be baled out of the shock, which
frequently is DONE The usual custom,
however, is to store the hay loose In
the barns.
Harvesting for Seed.
In harvesting soy beans for seed me-
chanical Dickers are used quite extern
sively. These pickers are of different
makes, but all have the same general
principle. They run astride the rows
and knock out the beans, leaving the
stems, leaves, and hulls on the land.
The machine is drawn by two mules
and operated by two men. One man
drives and another throws out the ex-
cess trash that accumulates in the
back Of the machine. The picker will
hold from to 6 bushels of beans.
When it is full, the beans are emptied
and handled in different ways. In one
common method the beans are run
through half-inch mesh sieve to re-
move the coarse trash and then are
sacked. One or two men handle the
sieve. These men may be the same who
operated the machine or they may be
extra men,. After thfs the beans are
cleaned with tanning mill.
Time for Harvesting.
Harvesting with a picker begins
some time after the leaves of the plant
have fallen. The time TO begin is when
the first pods pop open and throw out
the beans. AS the picker works best
only when the beans are dry, the ma
chine is not started in the morning I'M
til the dew is off, which is usually
from 8 to IL o'clock. When the days
work is once started, it Is customary
to continue work until nightfall with
out stopping for dinner. In the soy
bean district picking usually begins
about the last of October and lasts
through approximately 10 days of
good picking weather. If it rains, the
maturing of the beans is checked and
picking is resumed when the weather
again becomes dry A machine will
pick from to acres per day.
WASTE III FfCkiH9.
The waste of beans In picking usu-
ally varies from one-twentieth to one.
fourth. and, as rule, averages about
one-eighth. If the plants are blown
down or have long branches so the ma
chine cannot handle them well, the
waste may be more than this, or If the
beans are left on the vines too late, so
that many Of them pop out the vast
age may be higher. Varieties of beans
that begin fruiting some distance from
least waste by a picker, gnd this is
one advantage of the mammoth yellow
soy bean. Hogs are usually turned in
to clean up the waste beans. SO that in
fact there is very little loss.
Hen Cannot Rival the Fish.
Information concerning the number
OF eggs produced by various species of
nsn has been limited mainly to rather
rough estimates. According to the All
gemeine Fischerei-Zeitung, some care
iful counts were made last year at the
'Bavarian trout hatchery. The first in
vestigations were in connection with
common trout and rainbow trout. 81
specimens of the former and 81 of the
latter were stripped and the spawn
counted. The older and heavier Ash
were found to have the most eggs
tranging up to about S,O00), but the
younger fish yielded decidedly larc-
er number of eggs in proportion to the
weight of the fish. The experiments
were repeated with perch (Perca
1uviatilis), in this case the females
Just about to spawn being killed and
the ovaries being removed and dis
'ected. The number Of eggs in perch |
ranged from $40 for a fish four
inches long up to 80.4SO for one 1912 |
inches long; but in this species, also.
ne number of eggs per unit weight Of
Ism Is much larger in small than in
arge hsh.-Scientffic American