The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-07-02
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value 81 beans.

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most parts Of this country beans
No unknown as q field crop. Farmers
have good gardens raise Lima,
3 ssnap string, and perhaps other kinds
/ dreams, which are used for cooking
wsile they are in green or immature
ssate. comparatively few western
farmers raise each year sufficient
quantity 81 the common navy or white
marrow beans for the supply Of their
families. These are soaked, parboiled,
and baked with pork. Baked beans,
censtittte one OF the most common:ai.
tIcles Of food in the New England
states, but they are almost entirely un-
known in tho south and the extreme
Mestern states and territories. Few of
sssour people who were born in European
e9Mntries ever eat beans cooked
Rkce fashion, Though many stew
and use them for making soup.
A1any who were accustomed to eat
1 bSaaS at home forego the use Of them
hsEe becanse the varieties they preferred
/ arc not in cultivation in this country.
Persons who formerly resided in Swe-
den. Italy, Austria, and France often
speak of the excellent beans they had
4 in their old homes, but none of them
appear to have Interested themselves in
bringing the seed to this country. Ap-
I parently little interest has been shown
in the introduction and acclimation of
foreign varieties OF beans.
Very few western farmers regard
beans i profitable crop to raise for the
market. Most OF the beans for supply
4 ing city markets are raised in New
6rk Or the New England states. That
the west possesses many advantages
4 over he east for raising beans seems
evident. Beans do best on land that is
Z free from weeds and which is produc-
tive without the application OF stable
manure. 1T costs no more to send a
Ibnshef of beans to distant market
,thanit does q bushel Of corn, and the
price Of the former is three or four
times that Of the latter Beans are
worthy the attention of small farmers
who have not the means to purchase
expensive machinery such as is needed
Tor raising and harvesting corn and
]; wheat. a drill and aone-horse culti-
vator are the most costly implements
that are required in planting and culti-
waiting Geld beans. They can be pulled
by hand or cut with common scythe
and thrashed with q hand-fiail. The
crop requires no largo amount of labor.
The hoe or cultivator should not be
used among beans when they are wet
by rain or dew, as disturbing the vines
Ia such times is likely to cause them to
rust. Beams should rot be planted till
danger from frost Is over, and the
vines, when pulled, must pe protected
from the rain
Although great pains have been ta-
EkeH 10 introduce into this country all
ittie varieties Of flowers and grains that
I grow In other countries, few have in
iterested themselves in obtaining new
varieties Of beans. 1t is stated that
seventy varieties of beans grow in Ja-
pan and tnat the owner or occupier Of
{ La small plat of gronnd not infreguently
7 scnltivates as many as twenty kinds for
the use of his family. Two and some
times three crops Of beans are produc-
led on the same ground in the same sea-
ison. Some of the beans raised in ia
jpan are adapted to low and damp
ground and others to that which is high
and dry Some grow in bush form and
others cling to supports. In Japan, as
lin China, beans generally take the place
Of meat as articles of human food.
They are also fed to fowls animals,
land fish kcpt'fiT artificial ponds. 1t is
1.-THE opinion of persons who have visited
these countries that theyast population
scould not be supportedsif beans were
snot generally raised and eaten. Beans
are held in high regard inwarious por-
itions Of Africa and South America,
where there is y deficient rainfall to in
.sure the production of Indian corn and
tthe common kinds Of small grain.
According to the agricultural returns