Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-02-23
OLD FASHIONED AND I'M.
PROVED YELLOW EYE BEANS
Seed True to Standard Types De-
veioped at hiehroor Farm

The market value % Maine g.owa
Yellow Eye beans and tie Improved
Yellow Eye beans depends upon their
,rueness 20 the type called for b. the
Boston bean dealers. In order 10 COM
lnan6 the top price not only must som:
q the beans be standard, They must
all be Of that type. The more nearly
inform and true TO type the better
price one can expect 10 receive from :
crop. II community is producing
leans o. uniform standard type that
fact Will speedily become known. and
the product of thai community Will be
al a premium.
Therefore when the Maine Agricul-
tural Experiment Station began its bean
breeding for the TWO kinds OF Yellow
Eye beans the first thing 10 learn was
what the Boston Market considers 10 be
a Yellow Eye bean and an Improved
Yellow Eye bean. This was taken Up
BY correspondence and afterwards b.
personal visits 20 the prominent Boston
dealers h:ndlng these kinds Of beans.
While there was some difference OF
opinion the final standards adopted by
NiiS SioticIl -sAJ "EiS
approved and accepted by the experts
Of the Boston bean market before the
bulletin was issued.
Since that time the Station fas been
engaged in fixing the type and produc-
ing the beans on q large enough scale 10
y rant their distribution. In 1918
enough seed was obtained 50 that the
beans had a pretty wide trial in 1919.
Out Of about % strains the Station has
now reduced the ones tina. il recon-
mends to three strains Of each Of the
two varieties. In l'l9 as grown by the
Station at H:ghmoor Farm on large
areas the three strains to pc continued
Of the Old Fashioned Yellow F.e beans
yielded at ire rates % a. q and g
bushels Ter acre And the three I'M
proved Yellow Eve leans Welded at the
rate Of .. . and % bushels per acre.
The Old Fashioned Yellow Eve tea, is
'he Improved Yellow Eye Rea-. Eut
there IS only limited demand for il
outside If the state of Maine with j..
single exception the Boston bean mer-
chants agreed IN 1916 in saving tina, out
side of the State Of Maine there 3
practically no demand for he OH FASH
Toned Yellow E...e bean and that whe,
the- receive lot Of this variety of
beans they are largely sent TO jobbe-s
and retailers in Maine
Maine $40 cat has replaced other cats
on thousands Of acres in Maine. Ana
with reason. For It is the bes. oat for
Maine conditions yet produced For ex-
ample the Waldo County Farm Bureau
in 1919 in trials by Is farmers found o.,
lAa acres an increased Weld Of a.s,
bushels; on the average an increase Of
little over g bushels per acre. One
Of the great advantages Of a pure line
is that the plants are uniform all the
way from pushing through the ground
until harvest. Theg not only bloom but
they ripen at the same time and are all
ready to harvest at one time. This an
plies to the bean plant as truly as i.
does TO the oat plant.
While Maine stands near the head he
ing the ffth State. in bean growing. the
states above it grew in 1910. >. -. IS anil
60 times as many beans as Maine. There
seems to be little reason why the bean
crop should not be made an inportan.
one' in Maine. Most of the varieties OF
the bush bean and all Of these here
spoken Of will mature in 90 TO l01 DAYS
For the southern and central parts O.
the state they are as pure as any othe-