PULSE 
169 CROPS 
culture are the same as for dwarf beans, the 
Scarlet Runner and White Dutch Runner. 
There are more than 100 varieties of beans 
and no one book could give in detail all that is 
of interest concerning them, but the gardener 
who wants to know more of his bean crop may 
read Bailey, Bulletin 87 Cornell Experiment Sta- 
tion, and Cornell Bulletin 115. 
Bush beans are sown in drills, 18 to 20 inches 
apart to admit of easy and frequent tillage, which 
is necessary to preserve moisture and destroy 
weeds; the plants stand from five to ten inches 
apart in each row. One pint of seed will sow 
from 75 to 125 feet of drill, according to the 
variety of bean used, or at the rate of one bushel 
up to five pecks of seed to the acre, when sown 
in drills. Fall, or climbing beans, and all 
Lima beans, are sown in hills, four or five seeds 
to a hill, and the hills are three to four feet 
apart. 
Pole and Lima beans need supports and when 
poles are scarce you may put strong stakes in 
the ground at distances of 10 to 12 feet, and 
then run two rows of wire from pole to pole, 
one row near the ground and one near the top 
of the stake. Then from the top to the bottom 
wire, run cords, up which the beans may climb. 
In small, home gardens, growers often sow Lima 
