. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 206 BEANS BEANS Feeds and Feeding ; Hunt, Cereals in America; Wilcox and Smith, Farmers' Cyclopedia of Agri- culture ; Wisconsin Experiment Association, 3d and 4th reports ; Wisconsin Experiment Station reports, 20, 21, 22, 23; Yearbooks of the United States department of Agriculture. , Phaseolus vulgaris, Linn. 295-302. Legu- BEAN, FIELD miiioscB. Figs, By J. L. Stone: Annual plants of bush or twining habit, of un- known habitat but probably native to the New World, grown for the edible seeds. Leaves 3-foliolate, the leaflets stalked and
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 206 BEANS BEANS Feeds and Feeding ; Hunt, Cereals in America; Wilcox and Smith, Farmers' Cyclopedia of Agri- culture ; Wisconsin Experiment Association, 3d and 4th reports ; Wisconsin Experiment Station reports, 20, 21, 22, 23; Yearbooks of the United States department of Agriculture. , Phaseolus vulgaris, Linn. 295-302. Legu- BEAN, FIELD miiioscB. Figs, By J. L. Stone: Annual plants of bush or twining habit, of un- known habitat but probably native to the New World, grown for the edible seeds. Leaves 3-foliolate, the leaflets stalked and stipellate, entire ; flowers papilion- aceous, greenish, whitish or tinted with blue or blush, few at the apex of a short axillary peduncle, the stamens 9 and 1, pistil 1 and contained within the stamen tube, which is enclosed in the spiralled or twisted keel (a, Fig. ); fruit a long, 2-valved pod containing many oblong or sometimes oval seeds of many colors. The common garden snap beans are of the same species. The bush beans are often separated as a distinct species, P. nanus, but both bush and pole varieties are undoubtedly domestic de- rivatives of one species. History. While beans have been grown ana used for human food in various forms from a very early date, the production of commercial dried beans is of recent origin. It is stated that in 1836 Stephen Coe brought from the eastern part of New York into the town of Yates, Orleans county, a single pint of beans. He planted them, and from the successive products of three years, his son, Tunis H. Coe, in 1839 raised a small crop of beans and sold a load of thirty-three bushels to H. V. Prentiss, of Albion, the only man in the county who could be induced to buy so many. This is supposed to be the first load of beans sold in western New York, and it is probable that up to that time there had not existed anywhere in the world an organ- ized industry for producing and distributing commercial dried beans. From this humble beg
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