The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1923-09-20
HUGE BEAN CROP ON
TRACT WILL BRING
2 MILLION DOLLARS
Weather Conditions Favor Harvest
ing OF Districts Principal Crop.
Yield Heavy, Price Good.

don occupies the center of concern
here now, with every indication
pointing TO the successful market
ing OF the large tonnage that is be-
ing produced this season.
Speaking In round numbers,
local authorities state that the
value of the bean crop that will
be marketed. cleaned and ship
ped from Filler will total 100000
and VIII amount 10 -75 carloads.
The revenue from the beans
raised In this county this season
will total two million dollars.
Two-fifths of the acreage is con-
tracted, while the balance Is
mostly OF the Great Northern
variety.
Favorable weather during Sep
TENDER has been worth thousands Of
dollars to local growers, many of
whom are now thrashing their beans
and reporting even larger yields than
were anticipated earlier in the sea-
son.
The acreage of beans in this dis
ing conservatively estimated that
there are no less than 10000 acres
OF beans. both garden and white. in
the Filler territory alone. There ale
10000 acres of beans in the county
this season.
A yield of so bushels of Great
Northern beans TO the acre is report
ed from the w. T. Sheldon ranch
southwest of here; F. Z. Willimas,
residing south of Filler. got 46 bush
els to the acre, with the same vari-
ETY., and other similar yields are be-
ing reported daily. Thompson Bros
and Logan got an average of 40
bushels, while Jesse Hainline re-
ports a yield of between 35 and 40
bushels.
At the present the market price OF
white beans is cents a pound. With
such yields as those already report
ed, growers should receive in the
neighborhood OF 1925 TO Sl35 an
acre for their crop. However it is
predicted that the average yield will /
be in the neighborhood of 20 bushels /
10 the acre.
Cold weather struck here Friday, I
and frost has been reported in iso-
lated sections during the last few /
nights, but no crop damage has so
far been noted. Most all the beans
are now cut and there are perhaps
rs bean hullers now operating at full
blast on this tract.
There are half dozen local bean
concerns here and all of them are
preparing to take care of the huge
crop that will be marketed during
the next several months. At least
three local concerns, the Filler Seed
company, the +. b. Clark Seed COM
pany and the ID. Landreth Seed com
pany, have large acreages OF con-
tract garden beans in this section,
and although the yields in these va
rieties are somewhat smaller than is
the case with the white beans, the
returns to the grower in all in
stances will be large 4,
As the prosperity of this section
this year is greatly dependent upon r
the success of the bean crop. the I
as a whole is getting no
little satisfaction over the assured
success OF the bean growers.
Milling operations started Mon
day morning at the Filler Seed COM
,any headquarters, and handpiek- L
ng crew went on duty there yester- Il
lay morning. Wilfred Olsen. man b
lger, stated yesterday that there a
will be so persons on the payroll OF Il
he company here by Monday Of next II
week.
The Clark Seed Company is get II
ing ready for the fall run; the o. s
/. Chllds Seed company is already ST
an addition is being built TO
he N. B. Keeney & Son plant to G,
are for the big crop. and Poison q
atkinson have installed new plant 3,
OF cleaning purposes. y,