American Agriculturist, November 10,1923 
Prospects, in the Bean Market 
Are Beans Coming Back as a Cash Crop ? 
319 
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All the important bean producing Sble s^nnllv^tP S’"" the merchant - whites, the two together being known 
States have a larger yield than S i 922 Trade^LStiJ T Y * h •*. - a ? pea or nay y beans » 17 - 6 P er cent 
with the exception of California where vorable thi^far thSSear.^ $£*1922 SnkS’3 7°nef cenSViT^ 5 pe o r 9 cent 
siiliSSSx Si h&e F s 
New York. 
Michigan. 
1923 
1,000 
Bushels 
1,526 
K 9 .dR 
1922 
1,000 
Bushels 
1,302 
California., , , 
4,336 
1,360 
276 
46 
990 
154 
Colorado. 
New Mexico. 
Arizona . . !., 
135 
Idaho . . 
Wisconsin. 
Total. 
14,936 
11.893 
satisfactory. Elevators, 
handicapped by ai shortage of labor to white^pca' bea na, * i Is’' «■ o p ’ til is' ‘year 
„n i. a A e .. b _ e ?" S °W k ein ® «b«ttt two-thirds of the total for 
Headquarters 
for North American Furs. „ 
Big Trapping Season Ahead. Get Ready Now! 
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F.C. TAYLOR FUR CO. 
785 Fur Exchange 
St. Louis, Mo. 
B^f op to* theTr^capacity fo get'beans'retidy 1 ,^ 0 ^ Th/S ^uoes A WlSP OM Tl-JHMPr 
4.809 for shipment. Bad weather caused mostly small whites with a few large ** ^111 110.0061 
and powers are reluctant whites and three or four per cent of T ~ --~. 
to sell whenever prices drop, compel- 1 ’ ‘ ’ - - - - F 
ljng elevators to bid up the "niarkeTto 1 f d to percent I? Jed kidneys^md 
tn?^lf^ bean p i 1 - 0 r 11 th eir orders. 20 per cent yellow eyes but the State 
The small crop of big limas in Califor¬ 
nia puts them in a strong position. 
Some of the dealers look for much 
is also a big producer of white pea 
beans. 
In the state of Ohio there lived a bunch of boys 
wno had this trapping business down to a science 
J hey each sent for separate price lists everv year 
and then sent all their furs to the house givitig the 
best quotations. After five years they decided 
7 ^VY 01en t 80 dreadfully wise because they 
didn t have enough profits to make their efforts 
worth while. 
The United States is both an im chelZl ll , d u ma , ch 7 baut 90 per cent of the Colorado 
porter and an exporter of beans but wishes father to iknn^H+ aP %B he and N< r> v Mexico crop consists of pintos 
normally the trade father t0 the thou ^ bt - They or native Mexican beans. Arizona 
normally the trade 
balance is on the im¬ 
port side, so that we 
consume more beans 
than we raise. The 
supply and distribu¬ 
tion of the 1922 crop 
and the average for 
the five years 1917 
to 1921 are given in 
the table below. The 
export and import 
totals are for the 
twelve months from 
September to the 
following August 
inclusive, covering 
the approximate 
year in which the 
crop is consumed. 
This year’s crop 
of 14936,000 bushels 
is about 1,500,000 
bushels more than 
were consumed in 
in the United States 
PRICE 
PER 
CWT. 
SlOM 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
l9t7 
1918 
T919 
1920 
T T 
1920-21 
1921-22 
1922-23 
~rn iiiiiii r 
TTlTll TI M 1 
TTTITH I II 1 
80 S 
_ 622 
» 
71 
A 
\ 
2 as 
{ 
MONTI 
ILY' PRIC 
ES 
0 
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{( 
- “Kun SEPTEMBER TO 
FOLLOWING AUGUST 
This curve shows the trend of bean prices on the Chicago market 
raises mostly pinks 
Limas make up 
about a third of the 
California crop and 
are produced along 
the southern coast. 
The valley and 
- coastal region of cen¬ 
tral California 
‘raises small whites, 
large whites, pinks, 
blackeyes, and some 
red kidneys. ' Idaho 
raises a wide va¬ 
riety of beans as 
its crop is greatly 
Prized for seed, 
but large and smal 
whites predominate. 
Montana runs 
Strongly to large 
whites. 
Southern Idaho 
and the Yellowstone 
Valley in Montana 
produce a large white 
One day they met lorn McMillan driving a new 
car to town. Tom said he made the price of his 
swell outfit Shipping pelts. He told how he got 
vase to those funny prices and found it was better 
to aeal with ( has. Porter because he alwavs knew 
m advance just what he was sure of getting lie 
said that Porter never offen*l $5 for a $3 pelt but 
-. J . . 
he always pa id the $3 which promised and some¬ 
times just a little better. Chas. Porter now has five 
WLse trappers in that section instead of one. 
Don’t Take a PITDC 
Chance with your I U I\iJ 
Send utt lAour 
name and address. 
Get. our Price Bul¬ 
letins, Sh ip pinn 
Tags, and full 
particulars. Do it 
right now. This 
means real dollars to 
you, so don’t put it 
off. Write today. 
Your furs mean real dollars to 
you. VVhy sell them to some fellow 
who Offers you $1.25 when you know 
blame well you are lucky to get 
“fty cents. Ask the wise trapper 
who knows. Once a Chas. Porter 
shipper and you will always be one. 
You know in advance that we give 
a square deal and every shipment 
brings sure money. 
CHARLES S. PORTER, Inc. 
117 West 27th Street New York 
in the preceding year and a like amount believe that the gam In u 1 ,, produce a large white 
above the five-fear average. Just how trade^ chafnek ^^be fi led to thit seedNorthern, the 
much our foreign trade will add to or elevators will increase their SUSS * *1 *?. ld to have , been 
take from the domestic supply is con- capacity that* buvers will nn? , 1p Jf h ned j ron j * ndlan m °unds. It has 
jectural. During the last crop year, we beans Is fait as they will be nfWrl 0I \ a commerc ial scale 
imported practically 1,600,000 bushels and thatgrowersmust keen o n sS SSiSSJ S6Veral l? ar t balers are 
more than we exported in spite of a even if price^Sdown P 8 a L fn ^ thlS bean . which is 
supposedly high tariff of 1% cents a The supply of white beans and nintos htlf +£«til 1 ” fro . m one-third to one- 
year^average^import 1 balance a^gfveli 
bushels figUreS ab ° Ve WaS ° n,y 56S ’° 00 y6a 7 when the Chica ^° average cfdeTp e remfum overotheTpef'bea^ 
b h 1 pea b j eans was $ 7 - 30 and -? 6 - 90 P er 100 Occasionally it is nassed off for £ 
So 21 Y n ? exc r iS b ? b ^ b - a whLh 1S it P ?e2mble ff s £ J$£ 
Bushels a PP a rent foi extremely cheap beans although not in shape. General nnininn 
13,025 f?? h a Thn°?n the dealers ar f. looking seems to be that production of this 
b i'« J he K s Y Pply , i” a r be ^. ma fi er bean will expand greatly in the terri- 
it s now believed to be. The fact that tory where it is now grown hnt E 
a aige fraction of the crop is in the its highly prized properties will be lost 
thaf itwilir e S tlVe t °^ anizat r s S ° if in P other sections. ® ^ 
that it will be fed on the market more Bean consumers have their peculiar 
1922 
1,000 
_ Bushels 
Crop. 11,893 
Imports. 2,247 
2,623 
Total supply. 14,140 
Exports. 655 
Apparent domestic con- 
15,648 
2,070 
sumption. 13,485 
13,578 
Information as to bean crops in such gradually through the year has some hahi't| n »l < t?, nSU Tlf r “ j;?. ve . their P e ™ liar 
countries as Japan, Hongkong, Chile, Bearing on the outcome. Furthermore iuan W?'t J bea . nsaf »ch- 
and parts of Europe from which ou^ if the plans now on foot to adve^ise and MMdte West m - the Eaat 
.mported beans come is scanty, but thus beans are carried out, another pillaV of cally^sets tte^ Lrket for P 
fai this fall our prices have been a support will be nlaced nnHpv fho w,,o ^.v. e marJ ^? b f° r the white 
little below the level at which beans market. Consumptive demand should territnrv sectl p n ®‘ B ^ton 
could be imported profitably. In gen- be excellent rie-ht nlnno- tt??? 1 ! te ^F ltoi y> however, California small 
eral, it does P not se P em likeTy tfitta!- Red kidn ^ s 
ports will be heavy. With a generous more beans than are in sight this ve£r p’ninp- in B YWbe j e, L a man y 
crop in this country, prices are likely and at mighty^ood'price? ' 18 yedr t0 P °S lilt, bea ” 
to be more attractive to foreign buyers The accompanying graph portrays Oht River Dip a ? ? of ,. the 
than they were last year and distribu- the course of prices of pea beans at wherp mi,L although sections 
torsar e likely to push sales harder in Chicago by calendar years from 1913 from southprn°Trn 6 po P u Mtion comes 
all directions so that exports* which go to 1920 and by monthJ during the last ? Europe also are said to 
mostly to Cuba, Mexico, Canada and three crop^ yearJ It ^show? that beans r 8 °° d “f^r ^ . So ^ h 
to northern Europe for relief work are have been matprinllv" oimm fL c * i^L. bma i S ’ a . nd the l\orth the big 
likely to be large? than they were iS war^evetpartlSfl arLince''Lrly l???’ ovTBei ?™^-ll C J°4 
ssssses mmsmM ^ssss^s 
%he° r aS?rStV y "e ra cfaraeter of HoattVieTto71 tie StaSTflE SS ia f befa * ta £ 
statistics such as are given above often grower for clean hem* e P llce to the extent of several hundred cars an- 
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Rochester, N. Y. 
RAW FURS 
The New York market 
—where most furs are 
'V f '" P? aci . e , UP Into garments— otters 
old-time New York KofcfceT^ CIK" 
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169 W. 26th Street New Yorlt 
We pay highest cash prices for all 
staple furs-Skunk, Mink. Muskrat. 
Haccoon, Hod Fox. Fancy furs a 
specialty, including Silver and 
£i rc .... - * 
_ Fisher," Marten, etc. 
returns and liberal policy now "bringing rSffii? 
ments from all North America, Alaska to Melico 
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\alue f We use all kmds of Furs and pav highest 
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