MARKETS AND MARKETING IO5 



eventually screened and put in shape for market at 

 terminal points such as Chicago, Cleveland, New 

 York, etc. But the increased area under beans has 

 changed this, so that now there are large numbers 

 of plants located in the bean sections fully equipped 

 with machinery for cleaning, picking, polishing and 

 bagging beans for market. 



Dealers and distributers. — From the time the 

 beans leave the growers they are in almost all in- 

 stances handled by dealers of one class or another. 

 In comparatively recent years there have been con- 

 siderable changes in the methods of handling beans. 

 An extensive system of cleaning houses and eleva- 

 tors has been established in bean growing sections 

 for such great states as New York and Michigan. 

 In the state last named there are over 200 elevators 

 equipped with the best machinery for handling 

 beans as they come from the farms, and making 

 them ready for the markets. Thus it is not neces- 

 sary for the farmer to own any special machinery 

 for cleaning the beans. Large numbers of these 

 warehouses are also found in the central and west- 

 ern counties of New York. One large concern with 

 headquarters in Rochester, and with distributing 

 offices in New York city, operates 20 of these houses 

 in the growing districts in New York and Michigan. 

 Many farmers draw the beans direct to these ware- 

 houses or elevators, others store for a time on the 

 farm in bins or bags in dry granaries. 



The process of cleaning is comparatively simple, 

 yet interesting. Delivered at the elevator, the beans 

 are first run through a cleaner which is equipped 

 with large rubber rolls. These serve loosely to 

 crush the lumps of clay and through the ingenuity 



