, 1874-05-16

Field Culture OF EEea:ag-ElanlxinI the
Weeds ~ Culture of Corn - Buying
4keroseue-SciIingt to tho Consumer
and Buying Direct of the 7Ianutac-
turcr-Fne Blooming OF the Apple.
| From Our Agricultural Correspondent.
cuAArAlGs, Ill, Nay II, 1874. =
CULTURE OF BEANS.
| PAn1s ILL.,, May Z, 1874.
| Ns. "RuRA1"-s1x: Why is i. tl1t farmers grow
40 few beaux? TIE crop ought to ba paying one.
that my small farm ought make beans paying
crop. have always felt an interest in rural affair
h.ve 5ead "Tn' Farm and Garden for years; but.
ls* Of several s,,x oaas farmer, Il. that h.,s
that ,he growing OF beans s not profitable; that
now and then lucky crop pays well. but they ur
@ certain and require TOO much lsbor saal wait 70
put in four or nvs in that it would pay.
hare few acre. Of old pasture that intend for corn
catstubble, and corn land thought that per-
harN the oat-stubble would bs the best
JASON Co1x,
The growing OF beans belongs rather to tho
mai atket-garden than to the farm and few farmers
know anything OF the management OF the crop.
If beans we're cultivated as a farm-crop the
price would soon be reduced to low figure, for
tue market would be overstocked. In Chicago,
beans are quoted as follows: 'Navies, band
picked, per oushol, $2.15 to $2.20; medium
s1.75 10 S2.lo per BRIL-" In New York they sell
from store at wholesale at S1.5o to $2.35.
prime marrows commanding tho latter
price. At Boston, S1.9o to s262. They
are ratailed BY tue peck At Is cents to 81. I
haye sold beans By the load in Chicago as low %
37l1z cents buHhol That was when the country
was new, and beans we're planted on p,airio
b,oken in June or July and planted to beans tho
following year. They lad no attention after
planting until ready to be pulled. suppose
that at that time thcy could havo been grown for
rs cents but, with the present price OF labor,
they could not be put on the market for less than
81 per bushel ne. >. the nearest depot Eoans
cannot bs grown ut profit food for domestic
animals, and, with the exception Of ahcep, they
are not rellehed. This leaves this crop for
human food, to be served up for Sunday morning
breakfast among the aristocracy, and pork and
beans for tha dinner OF the 1aboror. As COM
pared with the great staple crops OF tho farm,
they cannot in any event occupy very
large space Fortunately for tie small
farmer. the man Of tho great farm will never
plant them and, ii tho sliitlcss farmer plants
he will have no good bcaus to sell; and thus the
crop is left in the hands OF the small, pruden.
farmer, who las naors labor than land and is
desirous Of making the most money cut OF both.
But the
ECONOMICAL CULTURE OF THE BEAx
must be we'll understood in an Of its depart |
1nonts. before the crop should BE- uuder- |
taken. It il said that land too poor to grow !
wh1to beans il too poor for an1y 1.rm-crop. |
This implies that beans are suited to yeyy poor
land. In some respects this may bs true, and
this has gradually grown IN the minds Of the
tho e: best f5s Ro'f this hn crop oand' a.a s1
thus we ses Michigan beans quotei
II favorltcs i'll the market. l think il one J
would inquire of Thousand farmers in regard |
to the best soil for this crop. 1a:h her tho oniv
say thet We must hnve sandy soii,-n soil !
that will producc so-rc and naulleins, or rye,
but too poor tor corn or wheat OF course thoY
will admit that beans may bo grown on almost
fearful ono. and. as genera! thing, not to be |
thought OF. It IL tho weeds on rich land apd |
t thcir abscncs or the thin, sandy soils OF Nav
jersey and Michigan, that has made those
SANDY sol!s the especial home OF tha heans |
grown for commercial purposes.
No ono doubts that
BEANS WILL GROW
most iuxurlautly ou our },tair,c-f.uds. but t.r~n
t err aIo 9eterTed from their eettnzo by The Gy r
OF weeds. If this sauiy soil wero bI:.1 =.
manured IN order to produce u full cros. ny
weeds would also abound, aad thus shix q. .eo
cfc"n on poor soil,-1Wo poor to protzc " p,1a -
larger and mora vigorous family Of weedt tns
tue cultivate. is con. ent to t.Ee from ;.-Ano
soil very moderate crop, nnd thinsy ~ poot
uchy IN thus having crop that w1lis .us. mnlst,t
little care, and vet repay han for eto" VIII
a1nount Of labor that haE been reon' ~ ene ntoan
Thus appears to be tho present ) ,tu. 1a =, ham,
ore, pertinent ono, ''ou iS' 'aoio-
CAN GEASs eE dnow... 4.
m our prairie farms? IT Il .n.ws- i ~ H. ..
'e , ~ the Affirmative, 70 wa hsya seen A"e tbs
20 r. ut' a?9 ~. uu' )! TT weeds stand in the
ha ua1S us s.soa $50 q te1s is no way q dank,ng
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