Beans In Colorado 
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The chief consideration, either on irrigated land or dry land, 
is good thoro cultivation. Such cultivation should be given as soon 
after irrigation as possible to get onto the land,.and on dry lands 
such cultivation should be given after rains as soon as it is safe to 
work the soil. Cultivation should not be given after the vines be¬ 
gin to run, which is about the blooming period, as previously men¬ 
tioned. 
HARVESTING 
All harvesting methods can be classified into hand harvesting 
and machine harvesting. 
Hand harvesting is only adapted to small patches. Hand har¬ 
vesting is usually done by either pulling the vines or cutting them 
off just under the surface of the ground with a sharp shovel. The 
vines thus pulled or cut off are shocked by means of pitch forks.. 
The best machines for harvesting beans are the regular bean 
harvesters. These machines cut the bean plants off just below the 
A common type of bean harvester 
surface of the ground and by means of fingers push two rows to¬ 
gether into one harvested row. The most up-to-date machine's 
have bunching devices on the machine which bunch the cut vines 
into small, neat bunches. These bunches can be dressed up a little 
by a man with a pitch fork, for curing. Many of the machines, 
however, have no bunching device. In this case the bunching must 
