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field in mind where conditions had long been considered hope- 
less. The first year after drainage, the crop planted was very 
poor. It was then given an application of barnyard manure. 
This treatment acted as a tonic on the soil, and good beans as well 
as other crops have been the record on that field ever since. 
PLANTING AND CULTIVATION 
When soil and season conditions are normal, from the tenth 
to the twenty-fifth of June is the usual time for planting. If, 
for any cause, the crop is planted unusually late, either the pea 
Fic. 462.— BEANs on THE Farm or M. C. Burgitt, HiLTon, Monroe 
County, N. Y. 
or yellow eye varieties should be used, as these varieties require 
a shorter season for growth and ripening. When conditions are 
right the rows of beans usually show up in four or five days, if 
not planted too deep — not over one and one-half to two inches. 
I have cultivated field beans six days after planting, but this was 
a little out of the ordinary. —_ 
No crop that we grow responds more readily to cultivation than 
does the bean crop. If other work presses, it will pay to hire extra 
help to keep the cultivators moving from the time the rows can 
