. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 298. Types of beans. Left, Red Kidney; center, Medium Bean; right, Wliite Marrow. (Reduced.) moved that three rows, as left by the puller, are made into one, leaving space between rows to drive through with wagons. If drying weather prevails, they will become fit for drawing and storing in the barns without further turning; but if the B 14 Fig. 299. A garden bean at various stages of development. A, first picking (for "striug" beans); B, about half grown; C, about three- fourths grown; D, fully-grown pods. providing the bean
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 298. Types of beans. Left, Red Kidney; center, Medium Bean; right, Wliite Marrow. (Reduced.) moved that three rows, as left by the puller, are made into one, leaving space between rows to drive through with wagons. If drying weather prevails, they will become fit for drawing and storing in the barns without further turning; but if the B 14 Fig. 299. A garden bean at various stages of development. A, first picking (for "striug" beans); B, about half grown; C, about three- fourths grown; D, fully-grown pods. providing the beans are not allowed to rest on the wet ground long at a time; but the frequent turning necessary to prevent their taking harm involves considerable labor. When dry, they are stored in barns like hay and may be threshed at convenience. The threshing is done by specially constructed machines much like the ordinary grain-thresher. Some growers prefer to thresh with the old-fashioned flail, maintaining that the saving in beans that otherwise would be split, compensates for the slower work. Cleaning.—As the beans come from the threshers, there are among them more or less that are discol- ored and damaged, and also gravel and dirt of vari- ous sorts. This refuse must be removed before the beans are ready for market. Much of this work can be done by machinery, but some of it must be accomplished by hand - picking. , beans going into market are "hand-picked," which means that practically every bean is perfect. The work of preparing the crop for market is now almost exclusively in the hands of the bean dealers. At many of the railway stations in the bean-growing sec- tions are " bean-houses," usually the prop- erty of a local produce dealer who buys the crops of the locality. The farmer delivers his crop at the bean-house. It is sampled. The sample is weighed, picked and weighed again to determine the loss by picking. The farmer is usually paid for the estima
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