CHAPTER VII 



BEANS 



Food Value of Beans 



Travelers tell us that few people in this country 

 realize the important place which beans take in the 

 food supply of the world. Those who have been in 

 India and other eastern lands say that we are 

 mistaken in thinking that rice is the chief article of 

 diet in the East. Beans, they report, are found 

 everywhere a staple food, of the greatest importance 

 in the lives of the working classes. 



String Beans 



The advance which has been made recently in 

 the culture of beans is wonderful. Twenty years 

 ago string beans were well named, for they certainly 

 had strings and plenty of them. They produced 

 a cluster of pods which, if picked at just the right 

 moment, were edible, but which at once became 

 tough and coarse if left on the bushes. 



Today there are many varieties which are edible 

 for some time, and a few which continue to produce 



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