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Loading Beans With a Modern 



Hay Loader .... Frontispiece 



The Bean Seed 3 



The Usual Method of Pulling Beans . ii 

 Bean Plots at Minnesota Experiment 



Station 2i 



A Productive Bean Stalk from New 



York 25 



Market Wax Beans .... 30 



Stringless Green Pod Beans . . . 31 



Curies' Rust Proof Beans ... 32 



Early Six Weeks Beans .... 33 



Wardwell's Kidney Wax Beans . . 35 



Old Homestead or Kentucky Wonder 36 



Burpee's W^hite Wax Bean ... 36 



A Fine Sample of Wax Beans . . 42 

 Bean Plant Affected With Anthrac- 



nose 51 



Showing Mildew of Lima Bean . . 52 



Bean Weevil 53 



Bean Leaf Beetles .... 54 



Weevil Infected Seed .... 55 



Ash-Gray Blister Beetles ... 56 



Bean Ladybird ..... 59 



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