1508 Tur VecEeraste Inpusrry 1n New York State 
WHAT KIND OF BEANS TO PLANT 
This question must be settled definitely by the rule of cut 
and try, although there are some general rules. Without ques- 
tion the variety known as pea are pest adapted to the lighter 
loams and sharp gravelly soils. Beans of any variety do not 
produce well on leachy soils or soils over-saturated with water. 
The varieties of red beans are best adapted to heavier and darker 
soils as are also the white marrows. This latter variety is pro- 
duced profitably on a much smaller area in the bean belt than are 
the other sorts. There is a section in Livingston county where 
these are raised more than any other kind. 
SEED BEANS 
A great deal depends on the selection of the seed. If there 
is a crop that one has seen growing and knows about, that has es- 
caped the diseases so often affecting it, it will pay in dollars to 
secure such seed at any price within reason. There are sec- 
tions where, for different reasons, the crop is practically healthy 
and from which seed can be procured through reliable parties. 
Produce firms dealing largely in this crop often have shipped in 
a carload or two of such seed for the use of the growers whose 
crops they handle, and I have seen the yield doubled by such 
change of seed. I have had personal experience to verify this 
fact. 
QUANTITY OF SEED 
There is a wide difference in the quantity of seed used to the 
acre. Many believe that thick seeding increases the yield. I 
firmly believe that, if the land is in proper heart and adapted to 
bean growing, as much in quantity and of better quality can be 
grown if the plants are not crowded in the row. The rows are 
usually 28 inches apart. In my own opinion sixteen or eighteen 
quarts of pea beans and thirty-two to thirty-four quarts of the 
large beans, according to variety, are sufficient where conditions 
are right. We have noticed that when a bean plant grows alone, 
the pods are more numerous and the individual beans are of 
larger size. 
FERTILIZING 
There can be no general rule as to the make-up of a fertilizer 
for beans. All soils differ in their requirements. Even differ- 
