The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1911-07-20
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be pretty tiresome reading. II you
are interested, you will live through it
alright.
Mexican beans are OF several varie-
ties. The variety is not of much i'm
portanCe. However, the two varieties
best adopted to your needs are the
Rossllo and Bayo. The Rossllo is the
larger bean and heavier yielder, but
requires longer time to mature than
the smaller Bayo. For early planting
use the Rossillo; for late planting use
the Bayo.
The best time to prepare your land
for beans next year is right now. The
next best time is later in the summer.
The poorest time is late next spring
Select land that has already been cul-
tivated to a good depth. Beans like a
loose, rather sandy soil, and that is
not hard to find out there. II your
soil is tight" and not apt to blow,
give it thorough double discing as
soon as possible, following immedia te-
ly with the harrow Harrow it imme-
diatcly after each rain until fall The
disc should be run as deep as possible
II pour soil is apt to blow, disc the
surface and then ridge the land with
the ridges running east and west. This
will tend to keep the land from blow
ng and will aid in gathering moisture,
particularly any snow that may fall
during the winter.
Don't put in too large an acreage.
Ten acres is all that one man and ore
team can handle. Five to seven acres
well tended willpa better than twelve
acres gaumed in" and poorly culti-
waited. If you have plenty of horse
flesh and help, you can put in larger
acreage, but remember this more fail
ures have been caused in the Pam
handle 10y over cropping and conse-
quent poor cultivation, than by almost
any other cause,
Russian thistles and tumble weeds
sap the moisture from the ground very
rapidly, Don't give them chance.
Keep them out by surface cultivation.
| can't tell you just how to do this
best because do not know what inn
plements you have; you will have to
do it the best way that you can, but
do it. One good way is with a disc
cultivator. With it, you can not only
do good surface cultivation. but you
can ridge your land as we'll The
object that you are to work for is to
keep your land free from weeds and in
a condition to take up and retain what
ever moisture falls, without blowing
away. Keeping the surface well titled
is the way to do this
In my next article will take up
planting. cultivating, harvesting and
marketing. The principal object of
this article is to get you to begin pre-
pairing your land and to organize. You
can not make a success of new crop
SO Well in any other way as 10y organ
ization. Start Bean Growers Asso-
citation. Get every man in your neigh
borhood to join and agree to plant
certain number of acres. II you plant
n large enough acreage you can get
buyer to come right into your neigh
borhood You can join together and
purchase bean huller, (While hull
Ter is not absolutely necessary, it is
great help. You can trade work on
your crops. You can purchase your
seed more cheaply, etc.
Form your organization this summer.
Have branch association in each
.ownship. Get your local Commercial
Jlub or the organization itself TO offer
/ prize for the branch association
which has the largest number of sue
'essful members. Then go to some
merchant or the nearest Commercial
Jlub and make arrangements to have |
eed on hand for all members next
pring. You will need from fifteen to