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tant in the bean crop to coincide with those producing 

 largely of corn, but the two lists also show interesting 

 differences, indicating a somewhat more northerly 

 trend of bean production, although the crop is not 

 regarded as a safe venture in the northern counties. 

 How^ever, on the Lake ^Michigan shore of the Upper 

 Peninsula, excellent yields of beans have been secured 

 year after year. A hardy rust-proof type was 

 developed at the experiment station at Chatham and, 

 when sown in the northern latitude, has given very 

 satisfactory results. Anywhere in the State the bean 

 crop is attended with much uncertainty, and this, 

 together with unsatisfactory market conditions, has 

 somewhat discouraged bean culture, so that in 1920 

 the production fell off from the 1910 figures to 

 3,575,000 bushels, grown on 275,000 acres and hence 

 averaging a product of 13.5 bushels an acre. In 1921, 

 by a cooperative arrangement between the Farm 

 Bureau and the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, a laboratory was established at Saginaw for 

 the study of bean diseases with a view to their 

 eradication. 



Peas as stock feed and for canning are grown in 

 both peninsulas and are occasionally met with as an 

 important local crop. 



The abundance of rich muck lands and the com- 

 paratively cool, moist summers of Michigan are 

 favorable to the growing of celery.^ The industry 

 has developed largely in the territory about Kalama- 

 zoo, Muskegon, Decatur, Grand Ifaven, Vriesland 



»"Rept. Mich. Bd. Agr.," lOl.J, p. 32.3. 



