1506 Tur VrecETABLE INDUSTRY 1x NEw York STATE 
HISTORY 
Not much attention was given to this now great feature in our 
crop rotation until about the time of our Civil War. Then the 
demand caused them to be tried quite generally as a field crop in 
rotation with other crops. It was soon learned by experience 
that certain counties in this state were naturally adapted to their 
growth and profitable development, and to this day these local- 
ities in this and other states are recognized as bean growing dis- 
tricts. At the present time, the demand for this farm product 
is so great that they are an unusually profitable crop and efforts 
to extend their territorial confines are being made with varying 
Fic. 460.—A FIetp or MArrow Brans NEAR MATURITY, ON MARLBOROUGH 
Farms. YIELD, 30 BUSHELS PER ACRE 
degrees of success. I know of many sections in our state where 
heavy crops of corn and other products are grown annually and 
where beans will not produce a profitable crop. The vines may 
be in evidence in great profusion but the beans are not there. 
COMPARISON WITH OTHER CROPS GROWN 
In many sections, especially in Monroe and Livingston coun- 
ties in New York State, where I am better acquainted with 
