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Beans An Important Crop 



The writer has received reliahle in- 

 formation that the demand for beans 

 for export during the past eighteen 

 months has absorbed all beans obtain- 

 able, from one end of this country to 

 the other. Even the normal demand for 

 beans for the next tv^'elve months can- 

 not be supplied, and the added call, 

 occasioned by the European war, will 

 tend to make the demand even stronger. 

 This is the year when a farmer with 

 several acres in good tilth will do well 

 to plant this crop. Beans contain as 

 much protein as meat, and because of 

 their low cost, palatability and high 

 food value they have become an import- 

 ant article of daily diet for the soldier 

 at the front, for the prisoner in confine- 

 ment, among all nations, and it is im- 

 possible to overestimate their present 

 expoi't value. Today wholesale dealers 

 are offering four and five dollais a hun- 

 dred, in carlots, for beans. Our annual 

 supijly in the I'nited States is from five 

 to seven million bushels onlv. This is 



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hardly enough to supply home con- 

 sumption, to say nothing of the present 

 enlarged export demand. The great 

 majority of the beans of the nation are 

 grown in Michigan, New York, Califor- 

 nia, while Maine, Wisconsin, Ohio, 

 Pennsylvania, Iowa, Florida, Virginia 

 and West Virginia are important bean 

 growing states. 



The average yield, taken by the United 

 States Crop Statistics Department, is 

 fiOO pounils to the acre. Under irriga- 

 tion, in Colorado, as high as 1,000 to 

 1,500 pounds per acre have been ob- 

 tained. A person who will cultivate his 

 beans as he would his corn, idanted on 

 anything like reasonably good soil, 

 shoulil be able to obtain from 900 to 

 1,200 pounds per acre. The market 

 will .justify him counting on obtaining 

 better than four cents per pound, or 

 four dollars per hundrcil. This crop 

 should not be planted until all danger 

 of frost has passed, and great care 

 needs to be given to irrigation of the 

 crop. Consult your county agent or the 

 Stale College crop man, in reference to 

 both i)roper cultural methods and irri- 

 gation for this crop. Choose that type 

 which your local seed dealer or the 

 siierial croi) man of the college recoin- 

 iiu'iids as best atlapled to your locality 

 and local market. 



The iirincipal thing is, plan first of all 

 to |dant at least a few acres as one side 

 line cash crop. Second, plant in rows 

 sufficiently wide for use of a horse cul- 

 tivator. Tliird, keei) the crop growing 

 vigorously from the start. Fourth, har- 



vest in the irrigated section early in the 

 morning, before the intense rays of the 

 sun render the pods so dry that the 

 beans sell badly. Do not harvest in the 

 field iluring the heat of the day. The 

 crop should be allowed to come to full 

 maturity, to prevent any shrinkage of 

 the bean. Mexican beans, the Martha 

 Washington (a type of small navy bean) 

 and the kidney bean seem to be West- 

 ern favorites. The amount of seed re- 

 quired to plant an acre varies with the 

 variety, from forty to seventy-five 

 Ijounds. Probably the best harvest re- 

 turns have been obtained when beans 

 were planted in drills rather than hills. 

 For this an average grain seeder can be 

 used for i)lanting, slopping up as many 

 seed tubes in the grain seeder as you 



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