THE LIMA BEAN. 



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Early Rose, and rot much less, the latter being scarcely 

 affected. On a piece of new land where these varieties 

 were planted, the result was as follows, somewhat less care 

 being taken in measuring, the potatoes not being weighed. 

 Very few were small. 



[Statement of E. F. Webster of Haverhill.] 



In regard to the raising of beans, I find they do much 

 better to plough the manure in in the early spring, and 

 plant from the 20th of May to the 20th of June. Our soil is 

 all the way from gravelly to dark loam. Subsoil is usually 

 loamy, with exception of clay. 



Our Lima beans we plant from the 10th to the 15th of 

 June, in the richest and best soil we have. They do best to 

 plant after the land gets well warmed with the sun, and the 

 soil well mellowed ; then put in the seed, with a little super- 

 phosphate or bone-meal guano in the hill. After the beans 

 commence to run, pinch off the runners, head them in, arid 

 you will get more beans from the same quantity of seed. 

 As to my seed, I raised all I planted the- past year, except 

 one kind, that was the Rhode-Island Butter, which is a very 

 good market-bean, and worthy of cultivation. 



We prepare our land the same as for corn, as beans need 

 good soil, and very much the same cultivation. In growing, 

 cultivate with horse-hoe. Have not been troubled with 

 bugs or insects, as we keep a flock of chickens in our garden 

 and the field. Are troubled some with blight ; do not know 

 any particular remedy for it, but to plant again the same 

 ground if not too late in the season. Have planted the 

 Agricultural as late as the 21st of June, with good success. 

 We harvest for market, first, green for stringing, next, green 

 for shelling ; we then pull and stack for late. Our early 

 beans we pull, place in piles, and take them to the barn, 

 and thrash them with a common flail. We do not shell any 

 by hand, as it is too much labor. 



