1506 The Vegetable Industry ix New York State 



HISTORY 



Xot much attention was given to this now great feature in our 

 crop rotation until about the time of our Civil War. Then the 

 demand caused them to be tried quite generally as a field crop in 

 rotation with other crops. It was soon learned by experience 

 that certain counties in this state were naturally adapted to their 

 growth and profitable development, and to this day these local- 

 ities in this and other states are recognized as bean growing dis- 

 tricts. At the present time, the demand for this farm product 

 is so great that they are an unusually profitable crop and. efforts 

 to extend their territorial confines are being made with varying 



Fig. 460. — A Field of Marrow Beaxs Near Maturity, ox Marlborough 

 Farms. Yield, 30 Bushels per Acre 



degrees of success. I know of many sections in our state where 

 heavy crops of corn and other products are grown annually and 

 where beans will not produce a profitable crop. The vines may 

 be in evidence in great profusion but the beans are not there. 



COMPARISON WITH OTHER CROPS GROWN 



In many sections, especially in Monroe and Livingston coun- 

 ties in Xew York State, where 1 am better acquainted with 



