Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-29

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. II a
cap of straw or hay cap is thrown
over the top the stack will take no
harm and the beans will COM out in
good order after considerable rain.
But every effort should be made to get
the beans of from the field as soon Us
possible.
We have thrashed beans with an
ordinary two-horse-tread-power ma
chine without breaking many Of them,
and puch more cheaply than by tho
fail. Trcading them out with horses
is manifcstly an Objectionable method,
and not conducive to the good appetite
which dish of well-baked beans
should evoke. The machine is arranged
by taking out the concave and replacing
II with a stout board raised somewhat;
II the beans are fed in slowly, and held
o little while rs the pods go in. they
will be separated with little or no injury,
and can be cleaned from the chaff with
ease in II common fan mill. The chan
Is most excellent food for sheep, and
should be carefully stored for that pur-
pose.
Beans are an easy crop on the Ian d,
that is, they can b1 grown on
moderately poor land and make fail
yield, as they can. too. be grown with
corn and potitocs. But We advise
overy farmer to do every thing as wei
Us he Gan, and il he Is only raising
heans to do the best no knows how with
them. We have grown thirty-tivo
bushels per acre on good well manured
land, and have had more than l,50C
pounds of the most acceptable fodder
for the sheep, At the usual price fol
good beans ($l.75 Il husheD they pay
better than wheat and can be grown a
half the cost of this grain.
When beans have been thrashet
they should be stored in dry, airI
| place, and at first should be turned
few times to prevent heating, which
they may do II not thoroughly dry. TC
test the dryness of beans peck b,
measure should be weighed and spread
in dry warm place for week and
then weighed and measured again. !
they have lost a tenth of thal
weight those in the bin or barrel
should be turned out and well aire,
on dry day. New -four barrels ar
the best packages for shippinI
beans t9 market. In considering th
fact that tho ash Of peas and bean
contains forty per cent. of potash an
nearly rs much phosphoric acid, an
that the straw is nearly as rich in pot
ash, and that the grain contains fou
per cent. of nitrogen and the straw
nearly half as much, it is one of tn
anomalies of plant growth that the
should be able with their shallow root
to extract all this nutrimcnt from
soil that is considered too poor for an,
thing else, But so it is, and farmer
should not be misled into supposin
that crop of beans does not leave tn
soil poorer than it was previously
The fact is otherwise. This crop sin
ply gathers up what is left in the so
that other crops could not get, ant
like the man whose purse and goo
name were both stolen from him, tn
soil Is left poor indeed.
Beans are most nutritious fooC
They contain twenty-four per cent. I
protcine in the shape of legumine-
substance having the properties an
very much the same composition q
caseine and of which very good chces
can be madc--and forty-iive per cen
; of carbonaceous matters, against ten {
! protein and sixty-eight of carbonaceor
matters in corn. Hence, with corn
nearly equal quantities, tho mixtul
will make aperfectly balanced food an
! therefore one that would DO found Il
: antidote to the fatal hog cholera whiC
. prevails where corn Is the sole porl
making food. When beans are groun
with corn the meal is readily eaten |
all animals and is especially valuab
= for horses. When given to COWS Il
meal produces rich and abundant mil
= Hence discolored beans can be mo
!, prolitably used for feeding and shou
y not be sent to market to lower Il
y !, price Of good ones.--M Y Times.
u = en-