BEANS—BEAN DISEASES—BEAN PESTS 
fall; if there should be some disease in 
the fall crop, select seed only from 
healthy pods, and follow the recommend- 
ations as given above for cultivation and 
picking. | 
The beans when picked are sorted and 
packed in hampers holding about-seven- 
eighths of a bushel and are-then loaded 
into refrigerator cars. The cost of ship- 
ping a car to Northern markets is about 
$125, and the cost in these car lot ship- 
ments is about 30 cents per hamper. 
A good yield of beans is 150 hampers 
per acre, and prices are sometimes as 
high as $3.00 and more per hamper, for 
very early shipments. Many growers fig- 
ure that the crop of beans pays all the 
fertilizer and necessary expenses for the 
culture of the succeeding crop, and thus 
the price received for the latter crop is 
clear profit. 
BEAN DISEASES 
Anthracnose—Spot 
Colletotrichum sp. 
Causes large, scabby, dead spots upon 
the pods. 
May be controlled by selecting clean 
seed and spraying the plants with Bor- 
deaux mixture. : 
Bacterial Spot—Blight 
Bacterium phaseoli Erw. Sm. 
Leaves, pods and stems show watery 
spots. Not so prevalent on new land. 
Powdery Mildew 
Erysiphe.polygoni 
Produces a white growth of the fungus 
covering the surface of the leaves in 
moist weather. 
Sprinkle with dry sulphur. 
R. E. SMITH, 
Berkeley, Cal. 
Rust 
Uromyces appendiculatus 
Causes a yellowing and death of the 
leaves with the production of a dusty red 
rust on the under side. Not usually de- 
structive except on plants growing poorly. 
R. E. SMITH, 
Berkeley, Cal. 
BEAN PESTS 
BEAN APHIS. See Aphids. 
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Bean Cutworm 
Ogdoconta cinereola Gwen. 
The caterpillar of this species does in- 
jury to the foliage and pods of beans, at 
times stripping them. The larvae is a 
looper, pale green with three white strips 
and measures, when full grown, about an 
inch. 
It is distributed pretty well over the 
country east of the Rockies, but has been 
The Common Cut Worm Peridroma 
Margaritosa. 
—After Essig. 
Fig. 1. 
destructive so far only in Florida and 
Mississippi. 
Arsenical sprays will control it though 
care should be taken to thoroughly clean 
the pods if they are to be eaten. 
Bean Weevil 
Acanthoscelides obtectus Say 
Family Bruchidae. 
Bruchus obtectus Say 
General Appearance 
The adult weevils are very short and 
robust, measuring about one-eighth of an 
inch in length. The odd shape is due 
to the wing covers being shorter than 
the abdomen, and the head being carried 
at right angles to the body. The color 
varies from gray to brown with a vel- 
vety greenish tinge. The eggs are white 
and less than a millimeter long. The 
grubs are very small, a number of them 
being able to occupy a single small white 
bean. They are light cream colored and 
