1518 The Vegetable Industry in New York State 



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 ihe 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. 



