ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Loading Beans With a Modern 

 Hay Loader . . . . Frontispiece 



2 The Bean Seed 3 



3 The Usual Method of Pulling Beans . n 



4 Bean Plots at Minnesota Experiment 



Station ...... 21 



5 A Productive Bean Stalk from. New 



York 25 



6 Market Wax Beans .... 30 



7 Stringless Green Pod Beans ... 31 



8 Curies' Rust Proof Beans ... 32 



9 Early Six Weeks Beans .... 33 



10 Wardwell's Kidney Wax Beans . . 35 



11 Old Homestead or Kentucky Wonder 36 



12 Burpee's White Wax Bean ... 36 



13 A Fine Sample of Wax Beans . . 42 



14 Bean Plant Affected With Anthrac- 



nose 51 



15 Showing Mildew of Lima Bean . . 52 



16 Bean Weevil . -53 



17 Bean Leaf Beetles . . .54 



18 Weevil Infected Seed . -55 



19 Ash-Gray Blister Beetles ... 56 



20 Bean Ladybird 59 



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