The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-23
SOY BEAN HANDLING
BY NOVEL METHODS
is FOUND PROFITABLE

Angus beef cattle, Big Type Poland
FChina hogs, and soy beans are the
combination on which Albert and Clar
ence Jenkins, OF near Jacksonburg.
are relying for future prosperity. Al
ready the brothers are well known
through eastern Indiana as soy bean
growers, having captured fourth prize
at the International at Chicago last
year. They were flooded with seed
orders this spring. and were unable to
meet the demand by 100 bushels,
clear indication of the increasing pop
ularity this new crop is experiencing.
Quantity production methods, with
cheap handling costs, are part of the
Junkins' system An innovation that
is curiosity to many small bean
growers, is the harvester. Formerly
soy beans have been cut with mower
or binder like small grain crops, and
the beans threshed out as are oats
or wheat
Must Slow Machine.
1t is necessary TO slow down the
cylinder of the machine, however, the
cylinder running at half speed, while
all other parts of the thresher run
at full speed This means chanking
of pulleys and consequent delay, and
as soy bean threshing jobs are scarce,
growers usually find difficulty in get
ting the job done
The machine used by the jenkins
however, makes it possible for them to
harvest according to their own pleas
ure, and better still, to eliminate the
costly labor gang that is needed in the
.nt TNTa No 4 So 10
wheat harvester of the west, takes the
crop directly from the plant where it
mas grown, and delivers it cleaned and
ready for consumption A two-wheel-
ed cart straddles the row of soys TAX
ing it between two jaws as corn har
vester does. At the front end of the
machine, huge drum shaped cham
Der contains rapidly revolving beater
which threshes against the soy bean
TOW as it passes back through a slot
IN the floor, and knocks off the beans.
Chamber Holds Beans.
The beans are thrown back upon a
slanting riddle and shaker with back
ward pointing teeth. This losses the
trash back and up, gradually working
1T out at the rear end, while the beans
drop into a receiving chamber beneath.
practice of the Jenkins farm
which would horrify many good farm
ers, is the custom of leaving the SOY
beans to rot in the ground if there
is any difficulty in harvesting or in
disposing of them otherwise Most
farmers would regard beans so used
as total loss, but Clarence Jenkins
on the contrary justifies it on the
basis of good practice and profitable
farming.
The soys are more valuable than
tankage as a nitrogen source for
fertilizer, he says, it costs almost no
thing to raise them, so the failure to
harvest them is not costly, and future
crops on land where soys have rotted
are greatly improved. On the piece
of land half of which has had the
soys hogged off and on half of which
they have rotted, as a consistent prac-
tice for several years, the latter half
is showing much better corn yields.
Bean Prices High.
A comparison of soy bean prices
with those of other farm products also
will show, in spite of the general opin-
ion that soyNbean prices are rather
high, that their market, and even their
seed price is far below their true value
and the grower will find greater profit