BEANS 



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Take your bar and drive holes eighteen inches deep. 

 Don't be satisfied with a foot, or you will find your 

 poles all down some morning in August, after a storm. 

 The weight on these poles, when the vines have 

 grown, is much greater than you would suppose. 

 Set the poles in these holes, and stamp the earth 

 firmly about them. 



For the Cranberry beans and Kentucky Wonders, 

 make six holes, eight inches from the pole, and 



Jack, Doing "his Bit" on Shore Leave 

 Poles for Cranberry pole beans. 



not more than two inches deep. Into these drop 

 two beans each, cover, and make the earth firm above 

 them. Add a couple of holes, a trifle nearer the 

 pole, and put in four more beans, in case you need 

 extra sprouts. When these have started well, pick 



