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are Dreer's Improved Early Jersey, Ford's Mam- 

 moth, King of the Garden, and the Sievas. Of the 

 two types of dwarf limas, Burpee's Bush lima is 

 the most popular large sort used for shelled and 

 green purposes and Henderson's Dwarf lima for 

 the small lima used green or dry. Sievas are valu- 

 able chiefly because of their earliness. Santa Bar- 

 bara and Ventura counties, Cal., produce the largest 

 quantities of lima beans of any similar area in the 

 world. As high as 2,000 carloads have been grown 

 there in one season. Further reference to varieties 

 are featured in the earlier chapter on varieties. In- 

 sect and fungous pests are considered in the chapter 

 given over to that subject. For history, evolution, 

 relationship and detailed cultural principles, see Bul- 

 letins 115 and 87, Cornell University experiment sta- 

 tion, also Iowa Bulletin 10 and New Jersey Report 

 for 1897. 



Bean trucking in south. The snap bean is one of 

 the leading crops of the southern truckers. It needs 

 light, dry land and warm exposure. It can be 

 cheaply grown because it occupies the ground 

 but a short time, and also makes a good succession 

 crop to early cabbage without additional fertiliza- 

 tion. When the crop is gathered the vines are often 

 plowed under to fertilize the land. Battle* says 

 since ttu early beans are the most profitable, many 

 growers begin planting as early as March 15 though 

 there is a serious risk that such early ones will be 

 killed by frost. The green beans are shipped in well 

 ventilated bushel crates and the pickers are in- 

 structed to pick the pods as soon as they are of fair 

 size and before they are old enough to show the 



*N C Bui 112, pp 49-51. 



