Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-03

vines for hay. Is 1t best to cut
the vines where they are to be
threshed with a peanut picker
or is it best to thresh them on
the vines?"
The accepted method of harvesting
and handling peanuts is as follows
Peanuts should, of course, be picked
before frost. They are considered
ready for harvest when the pods
about the base of the plant show a
tendency to shed or become easily
detached from the vines. An ex-
animation of the plants in the field
will easily enable you to determine
when this condition has arrived. The
harvesting can, of course, be done
in a variety of ways. The vines
may be cut off and gathered sepa-
rately, but we do not believe this
would be found very satisfactory
procedure, especially where you wish
to prepare the nuts for sale through
the medium of a peanut picker.
The ordinary method of harvest
ing peanuts is as follows: The mold
board is generally removed from a
turning pillow and the share is run
under each row at a sufficient depth
not to sever the pod from the
branches. The side from which the
moldboard is removed is, of course,
kept next to the row. The next
step is to lift the plants by hand by
means of a fork. They are then
stacked the same day around stakes
which are driven into the ground
hn 171o fes ~,
stakes, which are usually about sew
en- feet high. Turn the tops out
and the nuts inward so as to pro-
tect them from dew, rain and the
attack of birds and predatory ami
mails. The stack is usually capped
with grass. After the crop is cured
to a satisfactory degree, then pick
ing and sorting may be resorted to-
The hay, of course, can be preserved
and used as feed.
Merits of the Laredo Soy Bean
A. j. c., Adrian, Ga, writes:
rs it best to plant Laredo beans
in rows and cultivate or sow
broadcast for hay? AT what
stage of growth should they be
cut? Something is eating the
leaves off my velvet beans. Is
there anything can use now
to prevent this?"
Two methods of planting SOY beans
may be followed. One is to seed
broadcast or in regular drills with
a grain drill, and the other is to
sow in rows "a to As inches apart,
depending on the richness of the
Tn al
should be spaced properly in the
drill row. When sown broadcast, the
beans may be cut with a mower
about the time they are ripe. This
should be done when they are pass
ing out of the dough stage and when
the dew is on them so as to prevent
SCATTERING. Where the beans are
planted in rows, they can be cut with
a grain harvester or an ordinary
binder. Some of. the varieties which
tend to run and have long, slender
dependent stems are difficult to
handle in this way, but the tendency
of this bean as a rule is to grow
rather upright, so it can often be
cut to advantage in the manner in
dlcated. The beans may be set up
in shocks and cured and then taken
to the barn and threshed at leisure.
BY taking the concaves out of an
ordinary fertilizer drill and cutting
the speed down materially a large
per cent Of the beans can be OBJ
tanned without injury
This has been a very bad season
for caterpillars and worms generally.
and many fields have been stripped
by this pest, which was so thorough
ly established before it's presence
was recognized that it was too late
to use remedial measures. At this
season of the year we would not
advise you to use poison in the con
troll Of caterpillars, especially where
you expect to use the velvet beans
for hay purposes.