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Varieties 



Pink Beans - "Pink" only name given 

 Large Wnite - Synonym : Lady Washington 

 Small " - " : Navy or Boston 



Harvest - 

 Vi/hen 

 How 



Yields- 



Good 

 Usual 



By-Prod ucts- 



After 2/3ds of pods turn ripe - August 25 - October 1. 



Vines cut with horse knife (bean sled drawn by 2 horses) 



forked into small piles, left one to three weeks, 

 until moisture evaporates, thresh by contract 

 (harvester furnishes everything' but hay for his 

 horses) put in bean bags holding SOj^ or IOOjt^. 



1,500# 

 1.000# 



Kind : Straw 



Where and for v;hat sold: To dairymen for feed 



To citrus growers for mulch and fertilizer. 



Commercial Sections- 

 Pink : 



Large \7hite 

 Small White 

 Bayo 



Grown in all bean sections of Sacramento, San Joaquin 

 Valley and southern coast counties. 



Contra Costa, Solano, Monterey, San Luis Obispo. 



Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara. 



San Joaquin aind Sacramento. 



