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same time that corn is planted, which for this latitude is about the 
15th of May. By making a succession of sowings at intervals of 
about two weeks, their season may be prolonged until frost. The 
bean plant succeeds in a great variety of soils, and will produce a 
fair crop on land that is only moderately enriched; yet it readily 
responds to good treatment, and as is the case with most crops is 
more produptive and profitable when grown on ground that is in a 
high state of cultivation. 
While only five varieties of beans were tested at this Station the 
past season, yet the results, so far as these varieties are concerned, 
were very satisfactory. No damage was done by the bean weevil or 
any other insect pest. The main points brought out were those of 
comparative earliness and productiveness. In the matter of earliness 
there was but little difference in the time of edible maturity, the first 
picking of each variety being made on the same date, but as will be 
seen from the following table there is a wide difference in the 
quantity of marketable beans gathered from the different varieties at 
the first picking, a fact which it seems should decide the earliest 
variety, or at least the earliest productive one. 
On May 16th, four rows, 93 feet long and 15 inches apart, were 
planted of Cylinder Black Wax, Golden Wax, Henderson’s Earliest 
Red Valentine, Round Six Weeks, and Yosemite Mammoth Wax. 
Clean culture was given throughout the growing season with the 
hand cultivator; water was applied three times on the following dates 
—June 16th and July 3rd and 19th. The first beans of marketable 
size wxre picked on July 18th, nine weeks from time of planting. 
Cylinder Black Wax. —A wax sort as the name indicates; pod 
round, somewhat curved, light yellow, 4J to 5J inches long, seed 
black; a,good variety. 
•'Golden Wax. —Pod flat, beautiful golden yellow, 5 to 6 inches 
long; this variety is more extensively grown for market than any 
other, being productive, of fine appearance, and a good shipper; the 
very best of the wax sorts; seeds white, variously marked with 
purple. 
Henderson’s Earliest Red Valentine. —Pod round, light green, 
to 5J inches long; a popular variety of the green-podded sorts, and 
largely grown for pickling; seeds mottled in various shades of red. 
Round Six Weeks. —The earliest and most productive variety 
under test; pods flat, 5 to 6 inches long, of a light green color, an 
excellent variety ; seeds uniformly of a dull ^^ellowish-white color. 
Yosemite Mammoth Wax. —Pods round, very much curved, 7 to 
8 inches long, light yellow; this is a mammoth variety, but it can 
not be recommended as it is not productive, and ripens very slowly; 
seed black. 
Bush Lima Beans. —With the introduction of the Bush Lima a 
great event is marked in the history of this popular vegetable; now 
