CORN. BEANS. SWEET POTATOES 121 



quart of seed will sow about 150 feet of drill. Do 

 not cultivate or pick beans when the vines are wet, 

 says Harriet, and I agree to that. 



Snap beans for market are usually picked when 

 about half mature, and are packed without washing 

 in various kinds of baskets and crates. The round, 

 one-third-barrel veneer basket is a favorite in some 

 of the eastern states. In some localities beans can 

 be sold in bulk to canning factories. 



White navy or other beans for winter use are 

 farm crops rather than garden crops and need not be 

 considered here. Pole beans of the "snap" variety 

 are listed in seed catalogs, but the bush kinds already 

 mentioned are more handy to grow and I prefer 

 them. 



Lima beans : Plant about ten days later than 

 snap beans. The bush limas (Burpee's, Henderson's, 

 etc.,) should be planted in rows as advised for snap 

 beans, but spaced about eighteen inches apart in the 

 rows. No stakes or supports are necessary. Bush 

 limas are best for extreme northern localities, for 

 they do not require such a long season as the pole 

 limas. 



Pole limas (Early Leviathan and King of the 

 Garden are good varie- 

 ties) are usually 

 planted, if in large 

 fields, four feet apart 

 each way (2,722 hills 

 to the acre) and culti- 

 vated both ways so as 

 to save considerable 

 hand work ; or the hills 



are often spaced three PLANT ABQUT SEVEN LIMA BEANS 

 feet in four-foot-apart AROUND EACH POLE 



