Beans In Colorado 
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A good set of pinto beans; after a light frost 
MARKETING 
One of the most important problems in the marketing of beans 
is to have a clean, high-grade, uniform product. Mixed beans, with 
discolored, broken beans, seriously docks the price. Since the 
pinto outyields most other beans in practically all the Colorado 
bean-growing sections, it should constitute the chief market bean. 
Machine-cleaned pintos will usually sell on the market within 
a cent of the price asked for hand-picked navies. The actual net 
return on pintos will usually be higher than for navies, because the 
cost of cleaning is not so great and the rejections under good mar¬ 
ket conditions are a great deal less. 
In abnormal years, like 1916, buyers will take almost any kind 
of a bean, but even in 1916 buyers were paying a premium for uni¬ 
form lots of clean, well-graded pintos. In some localities pintos 
are handled in bulk. Where this is true a uniform grade and clean¬ 
ness should prevail in the bulk delivered. Many bean markets, 
however, require that the beans be bagged for shipment. Where 
such is the case, the beans should be thoroly cleaned and graded. 
Uniform, standard quality should be bagged in bags of uniform 
size and marking. The marking suggested is “100 Pounds Colo¬ 
rado Pintos”. The remaining marking can specify the grower and 
address when so desired. 
Growers will be able to receive much better prices where a 
uniform product is produced and where the entire neighborhood 
