BEAN—BEET. 19 
in California as high as 40 bushels of bush sorts have 
been known. 
Growers’ prices for beans fluctuate with the season. 
During the past few years, owing to unfavorable previous 
seasons, prices asked by growers before undertaking a 
crop, have ruled higher than for a long time, ranging 
from $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel for the green-pod 
bush varieties; $2.00 to $2.75 for wax-pod; $1.75 to 
$2.50 (in California) for Lima and other pole varieties. 
The cheaper prices have been for staple varieties, such 
as Red Valentine, Mohawk, Refugee, Yellow Six 
Weeks, Black Wax, Golden Wax, Lima, Kentucky 
Wonder, White Dutch, Crease Back, etc. The newer 
the variety, the higher the price; though, as a rule, a 
grower does not charge much or any difference for 
growing a new variety unless it happens to be the first 
season for it, and conditions warrant a higher charge. 
It is the seed-dealer proper who usually secures the 
high prices we see asked from the consumer for seed of 
a new variety. 
BEET, 
The soil in which beet succeeds best is a deep, light, 
well-enriched, sandy loam. Two seasons from sowing 
are necessary for the production of marketable beet 
seed. First, are grown the roots which are wintered 
over in pits or silos or in cellars; these, being planted 
out the next spring, yield the seed. Beet seed should 
not be gathered from plants which run to flower the 
first season. 
Sowing for a commercial seed crop is made in.the 
usual manner as for garden culture, but should be made 
somewhat later than when the roots are intended for 
table use. The growing crop of roots should be rogued 
