Beans In Colorado 
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Colorado Pinto Beans about natural size (Courtesy C. &. S. Ry.) 
this land should he worked down into a seed bed. makinir as pood a 
seed bed as would be made for beets or corn. Where spring plowing 
is done it should be done early. 
Beans respond to good preparation. Consequently enough atten¬ 
tion should be paid to disking, harrowing and compacting the seed bed. 
In some sections listing has been attempted as the method of preparing 
the soil for bean planting. Listing, however, is poor practice, except 
upon soils which cannot be safely plowed, because of their very strong 
