Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-09
COL. MOTT IA.
VORS BEANS
N. p. IMMIGRATION
SAYS THERE is BIG
MONEY IN RAISING THEM.

Col. C. w. Mott, general immigra-
road in letter to e. H. Wilson, the
Kidder county ranchman, suggests
bean culture as being well adapted to
the soil and conditions of Kidder
county, and it is probable that other
parts of the Slope country might be
turned to the culture of beans, which
yield we'll and for which there is
good market. The letter of Mr.. Mott
/ explains itself, and will be of interest
to persons interested in the develop
| ment of different crops in this section
| orr the state. Mr.. Mott says:
81 was in southern Michigan last
/ week, and through Lenawee and Jack
fson counties investigated the raising
Fof white navy beans.
1 3 They are planted in the latter part
lof April and in May, and are har-
/ vested in September and October.
| They are drilled with two-horsa
drill, similar to those used in drilling
/ wheat, in rows about three and half
feet apart, leaving room for either
one horse or two horse cultivator.
! They usually cultivate the beans
! from two to four times during the sea-
son, the success of the crop depend
ing largely upon keeping them free
1 from weeds.
| The harvesting takes place during
| September or early October, and the
beans are cut by means of two hori-
zontal knives attached to two-horse
.cultivator. These knives are set low
enough to cut the roots, leaving the
vines and beans undisturbed. They
are then pitched and raked into wind
/ rows and allowed to dry.
/ The beans are threshed with an or
binary threshing machine and clean
ed by tanning mill equipped with a
"bean SCREEN which separates the
small and imperfect beans from the
perfect ones.
/ The crop will run from 20 to 81
bushels per acre, and sells for from
$1.25 to 81 per bushel, that is, when
hand picked. BY hand picked is
meant the beans from which the
black beans have been separated. Il
is impossible to get a machine to DE-
this work, as the black beans, al
though disqualified by their color, arr
normal in size. In these bean local.
ties they pay girls from 3 to cents
per bushel for removing these blacl
beans, and where this is not don
the buyers deduct cents per poun,
for the imperfect beans in each bust
ell The average value of the Gro
will run from $35 to $50 per acre.
OF course there is a little NOR
t work to be performed than in rails
s ing wheat, but l believe that the sol
t and climatic conditions are such i
e Kidder county that a good crop coul
|. be produced most every year, and tn
t revenue would be two and three time
e as much as could be expected froI
e the raising of wheat.
e They ship beans from Wisconsi
s and Michigan as far west as Missoul;
l. Mont, on our line, where they ente
f into competition with the Californi
,, bean. Butte and other mining town
l. dispose of good many carloads {
e beans during year. Your freigf
!. rates would be reasonable to tn
# west, and you would be in positio
r to shut out the eastern bean if a SUI
ficient quantity could be raised, an
;. some elevator or commission man il
# duced to take up the sale of then
S Through Wisconsin and Michigan
find that this trade is in the hands {
e few people, who seem to make
speciality of it.
d am sending you today under a.
other cover sample of the whit
navy bean from Michigan-enough
" sow-and should like to have you e
pertinent with it and see what can
# done. If you need more seed, you ca
get the same from S. M. Isabel & &c
Jackson. Mich. Possibly it would
n well for you to divide up this amour
n that / have sent you with some otht
neighbor, and see if you cannot g
n. others interested in this line of wor
g. USE TRIBUNE WANT COLUMNS
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