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using a hoe or a disk, according to the amount that starts from roots 

 not well covered. If this is done in September, with early rain or 

 irrigation, let it lie about a month and plant all vegetables not injured 

 by frost. If there is but little alfalfa you can plant immediately after 

 plowing under. 



Garbanzos After Barley. 



/ have some barley on dobe loam, which I hope to cut for hay in 

 June. Then I want to raise garbanzo beans. 



Garbanzos are nearer to peas than to beans. Their English name 

 is chick-pea. You could probably get a crop by sowing in June if the 

 land was irrigated after haying and worked well for the garbanzo plant- 

 ing. We doubt if you could get any kind of a start on dry plowed hay 

 stubble, although the garbanzo will stand more dry heat after starting 

 than any other member of the pea family we know of. 



Rotating Beans and Grain. 



Is it practicable to use beans for crop rotation on grain land in the 

 San Joaquin Valley; planting the beans in spring, raising a crop from them, 

 if possible, plowing the vines under in the fall and subsequently seeding 

 the same to grain ? 



It is a good proposition theoretically and good practically, if you can 

 get the bean crop. On the plains the pink bean stands the heat better 

 than others and is often very satisfactory. On low, moist land the black- 

 eye bean (cow pea) gives good results. Beans generally dislike the dry 

 heat of the plains, but there are places which suit them well. Most 

 valley beans are grown on riverside lands. 



Black-eye and Tepary Beans. 



// black-eye beans are planted the first of April will they be off 

 about the middle of June without water? Is there any demand and 

 where and what time of the year? Would the Tepary bean be more 

 profitable? 



Beans are not as lively as that. If you could plant as early as 

 April without danger of frost (and we are not at all sure about that), 

 you might get dry beans in July; or, if the land is pretty dry, you will 

 get dry vines without beans before that. Black-eye beans are of the 

 cow-pea class, and they like to grow for a long season in soil that has 

 enough moisture. Tepary beans will be more likely to succeed in dry 

 soil. They are very small, new and fashionable, and the seed may be 

 in good demand for planting. They are not yet staple enough to predict 

 prices very confidently. Black-eye beans are salable as soon as har- 

 vested to any dealer. 



Beans and Onions. 



I have excellent sandy soil on which I should like to plant onion 

 seed for a mature crop of onions the first year. The land has been in 



