The Time of Harvesting Soybeans for Hay and Seed 1

3 and 4, and so on, were continuous, there was an opportunity to select the most uniform parts of the rows for each harvest and to leave ample borders at the ends. Rows ~, i2, 2~, 32, 41, 52, 61, and 72 were used for the first harvest, rows 3, 14, 23, 34, 43, 54, 63, and 74 for the second, and so on, the outside rows and rows io, 19, 3o, 39, 5o, 59, 70, and 79 being left as borders. This plan permitted nine harvests. The plants when cut were tied in muslin squares and weighed, then opened and dried on the cloths as rapidly as conditions would permit. Artificial heat was not available. In the winter, after the samples had reached a uniformly air dry condition, they were weighed again and those samples in which the beans were large enough