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den they ought to reach twenty bushels to the acre. I am told 
this sort is grown to quite an extent by market gardeners, as 
the pods, being nearly six inches long, measure up well for the 
market. 
Among the other excellent garden beans are Round Pod Kidney 
Wax, Davis Wax and Flagalett Wax. The pods of this sort are 
long and quite large. The dried beans are a dark blue black and 
longer than the butter bean. These yellow pod beans that I have 
grown in my garden have given satisfaction, and there is very 
seldom any sign of disease. The old and well-known Cranberry, a 
large, round, red and white speckled bean, needs no description 
here. It is not as popular at present as some of the newer sorts. 
I have raised the Black Wax, Refugee and Valentine as a field 
crop, on contract for a seed house, but the yield was too light for 
a continuation of this practice. I am told that the yield of field 
grown garden beans is decreasing and that five or six bushels is 
about the average. The price has been around $4.00 a bushel, 
but as the 1914 crop was short it looks as if we would receive 
$10.00 a bushel for seed garden beans grown on contract. 
LIMA BEANS 
Perhaps the best early bush lima is the Fordhook. This variety 
followed by Wood’s New Prolific will give a prolonged season for 
this delicious garden bean. Bush limas are in every way as 
good as the pole varieties, and for that reason are rapidly super- 
seding them. 
CONCLUSION 
Where conditions will allow of profitable bean growing, this is 
a very desirable crop to raise; first, because of a quick money 
return, and, second, because the crop, if properly cultivated, will 
leave the ground in fine condition for wheat and seeding to grow, 
and the bean haulm makes a valuable addition to the coarse fodder 
for stock in winter, even for milch cows, if fed once a day. 
Then, again, a farm without a garden is sadly incomplete; 
and a garden without a succession of vegetables, especially beans, 
is surely unbalanced. Always having been used to a good garden, 
I cannot picture a real country home without this economic and 
educational department. 
