54 BEAIfS. 



The Kidney Dwarf Beans are not very hardy. If 

 planted before settled weather, there is danger of 

 their rotting in the ground, or of their being injm-ed 

 by late frosts. 



It is safe to plant Snap Beans any time from the 

 5th to the 20th of May, in the latitude of New 

 York, for the first planting. For garden-culture, a 

 succession of plantings should be made every three 

 weeks until September, so the table may be con- 

 stantly supplied with young Beans all through the 

 season. 



These Beans will succeed best on a rich, sandy 

 loam, drills open about three inches deep and two 

 feet apart, for field-culture. The seed is then scat- 

 tered thinly along these drills, about an inch apart. 

 It takes five pecks to seed an acre. The seeds may 

 be covered by a one-horse plough, a common hand- 

 hoe, or by drawing the soil over them with the feet. 

 The cultivation is principally done with horse-tools ; 

 a mule and Carrot-weeder will do all that is neces- 

 sary to keep the surface loose and the weeds down ; 

 or going over them once with the hand-hoe will be 

 quite sufficient. 



The product per acre varies from seventy-five to 

 one hundred and fifteen bushels of green Beans, and 

 they usually bring from two to four dollars per 

 bushel for the early crop in the New York market. 

 When they do well, they will geneJally pay a profit 

 of about one hundred to one hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars per acre, one year with another. 



String Beans carry very well. Two years a^o iriy 

 brothers shipped from Charleston, South Carolina, 



