studies on bean breeding. 175 



Comments of Leading Boston Dealers in Beans on the 

 Standards here Proposed. 



As has been pointed out earlier, the standards for yellow eye 

 beans herein set forth have been submitted to leading market 

 men in Boston.' Some of their comments follow : 



Chas. H. Stone & Company, 8 Chatham Row, Boston, say : 

 "We have been much interested in reading this report and with 

 one or two minor exceptions we heartily agree with all you have 

 said and beheve it will be of great benefit to the bean growers 

 here in Maine or any other state." 



Mr. O. H. Dodds, the bean expert of the Thomas W. Emer- 

 son Company, 74-76 So. Market St., Boston, says under date 

 of March 13, 191 5 : "Your treatise on Yellow Eye Bean breed- 

 ing which was kindly left here for me to read, with request to 

 ofifer what criticism I might see fit to make, I have carefully 

 perused, and I fail to see where I can make any criticism. You 

 seem to have covered the ground very thoroughly. 



"Would say that there are only two kinds of Yellow Eye 

 Beans which find a ready market here. One is the plump type 

 of the Old-Fashioned Yellow Eye, and the large plump type of 

 the Improved Yellow Eye. If the beans come anywhere near 

 these two types they find a ready market here in Massachusetts, 

 and also in Maine. 



"Of course, it is plain to be seen that the sooner farmers 

 come up to these ideals, they will have a better produce and 

 receive a better price for same." 



Mr. J. W. White, the bean expert of the Fowle, Hibbard 

 Company, 173 State St., Boston, says: "We have been over 

 the manuscript that was left with us and it will be presumptive 

 on our part to add anything to the very clear and exhaustive 

 treatise that you have made on the subject. The two types of 

 Y. E. Beans we should consider almost perfect and if you can 

 induce your farmers to use that kind of seed we believe we 

 shall have a much better type of beans." 



'It is a great pleasure to acknowledge our indebtedness and to express 

 our thanks to Mr. Robert H. Gardiner of Boston, formerly a member 

 of the Council of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, for aiding 

 us in getting in touch with the principal bean men in Boston. 



