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strip a second time to prepare it for 
planting. 
As to the proper time for planting, 
that is even more difficult to suggest with 
beans than with most of the other gar¬ 
den crops. Danger from frosts should be 
past, and the ground warm and dry. 
About the time you can put in your first 
planting of sweet corn conditions will 
usually be all right to make a first sow¬ 
ing, because, even if the frost should get 
it, the seed will have cost but a few cents. 
If you wish to rely upon only one or two 
sorts for the season’s supply it will be 
necessary to make sowings frequently — 
every ten days or two weeks. But usually 
it will be more satisfactory to depend 
upon some such combination as that sug¬ 
gested above. The first planting should 
be made quite shallow — an inch or so 
deep — because the soil is drier and 
warmer near the surface. After that they 
should be covered a couple of inches. 
The lima beans should always be planted 
on edge, with the eye down. They are 
placed singly three or four inches apart 
in the row, and unless the soil is light 
and fine they should be covered with 
some specially prepared light soil, of 
which it will not take very much to cover 
a row or so, or a few hills. The snap 
and wax sorts are scattered thinly into 
the row, an inch to two inches apart, 
and, if the soil is at all dry, should be 
pressed down with the foot or the back 
of a hoe before covering. 
For the pole beans, both limas and 
other sorts, unless the soil is quite rich, 
it is a good plan to give the hills special 
preparation in advance. Dig them out a 
couple of feet square, several inches deep, 
and put in a good forkful of well-rotted 
manure or compost, or a couple of hand¬ 
fuls of tankage, or cotton-seed meal and 
bone flour mixed; in either case, work 
this dressing well into the soil in the hill 
and cover with moist, fresh earth. Plant 
six to ten of the pole beans, or four to 
six of the limas, in each hill, pressing 
firmly into the soil. 
The supports for pole beans may be 
ordinary sapling poles, cut eight feet or 
so long and trimmed rough, so that the 
vines may get a better hold; or regular 
supports may be made easily from stout 
posts, such as 2 by 3-inch scantling and 
laths. It is best to set these in place be¬ 
fore planting the beans, as it can be done 
better and more conveniently, and there 
will be support for the vines as soon as 
they need it. When the “runners’’ first 
begin to form, help them get started up 
the poles right, as a vine that once be¬ 
gins to sprawl over the ground is some¬ 
times very hard to train. After the 
vines reach the top of the poles they may 
either be pinched off, which will tend to 
give earlier beans, or left to take care of 
themselves. 
The lima beans not only require a 
longer season, but they are much harder 
to start, as they rot very quickly if the 
soil is at all cold or damp. When plant- 
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