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suitable for canning are all picked, a crop of ripe beans can be harvested for 

 seed. The disease present in 1920 made this impossible on these farms. 



LIMA BEANS 



Lima beans are not grown extensively in New York. In northeastern 

 Genesee County they are grown to be used by the local canning company. 

 Accounts were kept by four farmers in this section on their lima-bean 

 crop in 1920. The average cost of producing one acre of lima beans in 

 1920 on these farms is given in table 84. Efficiency in the use of man 

 labor on these farms was probably higher than the average. 



The labor growing lima beans was very similar to that on string beans 

 except that less hoeing was done. The beans were harvested with bean 

 pullers and drawn to the factory, where they were threshed. The roughage 

 was kept by the factory. 



TABLE 84. AVERAGE COST OF PRODUCING AN ACRE OF LIMA BEANS ON 4 FARMS 

 IN GENESEE COUNTY, GROWING 12 ACRES, IN 1920 



