The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-25

The roots are where the X is seen
and the beans at the outer corners; the
stake is in the center. This enables
the beans to dry quickly and preserves
them from being soiled by the roots;
the stake keeps the stack erect. If a
cap of straw or a hay cap is thrown
over the top the stack will take no
harm and the beans will come out in
good order after considerable rain.
But every effort should be made to get
the beans off from the field as soon as
possible.
We have thrashed beans with an
ordinary Observation-Disclosures ma
chine without breaking many of them,
and much more cheaply than by the
fail. Treading them out with horses
is manifestly an objectional method
and not conducive to the CO. appetite
which dish of well-baked beans
should evoke. The machine is arranged
by taking out the concave and replacing
it with stout board raised somewhat;
if the beans are fed in slowly, and held
a little while as the pods go in, they
will be separated with little or no injury,
and can be cleaned from the chaff with
ease in common fan mill. The chat
is most excellent food for sheep, and
should be carefully stored for that pur-
pose.
Beans are an easy crop on the land,
that is, they can be grown on
moderately poor land and make a fair
yield, as they can, too, be grown with
corn and potatoes. But we advise
every farmer to do every thing as well
as he can, and if he is only raising
beans to do the best he knows how with
them. We have grown thrty-fve
bushels per acre on good well MANFRED
land, and have had more than 1900
pounds of the most acceptable fodder
for the sheep. At the usual price for
good beans (S1.75 busheD they pay
better than wheat and can be grown at
half the cost of this grain.
When beans have been thrashed
they should be stored in a dry, airy
place, and at first should be turned
few times to prevent heating, which
they may do if not thoroughly dry. To
test the dryness of beans peck by
measure should be weighed and spread
in a dry warm place for week and
then weighed and measured again. If
they have lost q tenth of their
weight those in the bin or barrels
should be turned out and well aired
on dry day. New flour barrels are
the best packages for shipping
beans to market. In considering the
fact that the ash of peas and beans
contains forty per cent of potash and
nearly as much phosphoric acid, and
that the straw is nearly as rich in pot
ash, and that the grain contains four
per cent. of nitrogen and the straw
nearly half as much, it is one of the
anomalies of plant growth that they
should be able with their shallow roots
to extract all this nutriment from
soil that is considered too poor for any
thing else, But so it is, and farmers
should not be misled into supposing
that crop of beans does not leave the
soil poorer than it was previously.
The fact is otherwise. This crop sim
ply gathers up what is left in the soil
that other crops could not get, and,
like the man whose purse and good
name were both stolen from him, the
soil is left poor indeed.
Beans are a most nutritious food.
They contain twenty-four per cent. of
proteine in the shape of legumne-a
substance having the properties and
very much the same composition as
caseine and of which very good cheese
can be made-and forty-fve per cent.
of carbonaoeOus matters, against ten of
protein and siXty-eight of carbonaceous
matters in corn. Hence, with corn in
nearly equal quantities, the mixture
will make aperfectly balanced food and
therefore one that would be found an
antidote to the fatal hog cholera which
prevails where corn is the sole pork
making food. When beans are ground
with corn the meal is readily eaten by
all animals and is especially valuable
for horses. When given to COWS tho
meal produces rich and abundant milk.
Hence discolored beans can be most
prohtably used for feeding and should
not be sent to market to lower the
price of GOOD ones-N " Times