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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Varieties. 



Extra Early Round Pod Red 

 Valentine 



Best of All 



Improved Goddard 



Extra Early Refugee 



Early Mohawk 



Currie's Rust Proof 



Pencil Pod Wax 



Challenge Dwarf Black Wax.. 



Mexican Chile Came 



Bush Multiflora 



Dwarf yieva (Lima) 



London Horticultural (Pole).. 



Whit« Crease Back (Pole) 



Earliest Giant Advance (Pole) 

 Giant Scarlet Runner (Pole).., 

 Two Colored Fire Bean (Pole). 



Time of 

 planting. 



May 23. 



May 20. 



May 26. 



May 26. 



May 26 



May 26. 

 Mav 26. 

 May 26. 

 May 27. 

 Mav 27. 

 Ma\' 27. 

 May 25. 



May 29. 



May 27. 

 May 27. 

 May 27. 



Time of 

 blossoming 



July 17. 



July 17. 



July 17. 



July 10- 



July 14. 



Julv 15. 



July 17. 



Julv 14. 



July 14. 



July 17. 

 Aug. 7. 



July 20. 



July 25. 



Julv 28 



July 10. 



July 13. 



When 

 edible. 



.Aug. 15. 



Sept. 4. 



Sept. 1. 



Aug. 17. 



Aug. 7. 



Aug. 7. 

 Aug. 8. 

 Aug. 3. 

 Aug. 26. 

 .Aug. 28. 

 Sept. 25. 

 Sept. 4. 



.Aug. 21. 



Aug. 20. 

 Sept. 1. 

 Sept. 3. 



Condition of pods. 



Narrow, J round while stringless, 

 later stingy when round, slight 

 ly curved. 



Broad, straight, partly splashed 

 red. 



Broad, straight, many red 

 splashes. 



Green, narrow, i round, partly 

 stringless, slightly curved. 



Green, narrow, flat, straight, 

 partly stringless. 



Flat, straight, partly stringless. 



Round, stringless, mostly curved. 



Flat, stringless, mostly straight. 



Medium, broad, flat, straight. 



Straight, broad, fleshy. 



Straiglit, flat, broad. 



Straight, broad, splashed with 

 red. 



Straight, narrow, almost string- 

 less. 



Broad, straight, nearly stringless. 



Broad, nearly straight. 



Broad, slightly curved. 



GARDEN BEANS IN 1906. 



Aside from those hereafter described, the varieties tested in 1906 were 

 all those which are included in the foregoing table 'and were planted 

 with seed which ripened here in 1905. The planting was done June 1 

 and 2, or 4 to 6 days later, though the blossoming and subsequent stages 

 of development were one to four days earlier, j)robably owing to the 

 dryer weather in July. As all other data are practically identical the 

 foregoing table will serve as reference for both seasons. As stated under 

 the head of Field Beans, the roots of about one-quarter of the plants 

 were found provided with nodules for the first time, the largest and 

 most numerous being found upon those of the Mexican Chile Carne 

 variety. The annual investigations which have been made during the 

 past six years have been so extensive and so thorough, that this sudden 

 inoculation becomes all the more mysterious, and an exjdanation is not 

 ollered btMimse none would be possible. The swd beans become fre- 

 quently inoculated when grown ui>on soil which already contains the 

 bacteria, yet this could not have been the case here, since the home- 

 grown seed was used. Tnoculation by nalural drainage from the plots 

 of field beans which had been artificially inoculated earlier in the sea- 

 son was practically im])Ossible, owing to the rolling surface of the 

 intervening ground and to the distance which was over twenty rods 

 from the nearest south and over thirty rods to the nearest on the north 

 side. Kust was fully as abundant as during the i)receding season, and 

 as usual, when the disease is prevalent, affected the wax varieties most 

 and i*endered the pods of some of these unfit for use before the picking 

 season was half over. Of the many of these vaii<'ti('s which have been 

 tested up to the })resent time, none has been found capable of resisting 

 the disease except the GolfJoi Eyed Wax, which is one of the varieties 

 tested for the first time. The vines are 11 inches, the pods 41/0. straight, 

 broad, flat, stringh'ss. Blossomed July l.'i, edible August 4, ripe Sep- 

 tember 10. Beans white with large splashes of dark yellow around the 



