. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 212 BEAN. BROAD BEAN, BROAD from this pest, while in the southern counties the bean industry is practically excluded because of it. The weevil in beans may be destroyed by the same methods employed in the case of pea-weevil, which see. If the infestation is but partial and treatment is resorted to immediately after harvest the seed may be preserved in satisfactory condition for
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 212 BEAN. BROAD BEAN, BROAD from this pest, while in the southern counties the bean industry is practically excluded because of it. The weevil in beans may be destroyed by the same methods employed in the case of pea-weevil, which see. If the infestation is but partial and treatment is resorted to immediately after harvest the seed may be preserved in satisfactory condition for planting. Literaiure. The following publications will be found helpful. The first three are concerned with the culture of beans and the remainder with bean enemies:— Transactions of New York Agricultural Society, 1895, p. 323; 1897, p. 323; Cornell University Experiment Station Bulletin No. 210; Report of New York State Department of Agriculture, Vol. 3, 1890, p. 49; Transactions New York State Agricultural Society, 1892, p. 238 ; Tenth Annual Report of New York State Experiment Station, Geneva, p. 23 ; Yearbook, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, 1898, p. 233; Connecticut (New Haven) Experiment Station, 20th and 21st Reports, Part 111, p. 189; Cornell University Experiment Station Bulletin No. 239. BEAN, BROAD. Vicia Faba, Linn. (Faba vul- var ;, Leguminosm (Windsor, Horse, English Dwarf or Scotch Bean). Figs. 303, 304. By John Fixter. The broad bean is grown for its grain or seed, which is used as food for man and for live-stock, and also for its herbage, which is used as fodder. It is a strong, erect annual, 2 to 4 feet tall, glabrous or nearly so, and very leafy ; leaflets 2 to 6, the terminal one wanting or represented by a rudi- mentary tendril, oval to elliptic and obtuse or. Fig. 303. Flowers and leaf of the broad bean. mucronate-pointed ; flowers axillary, dull white and with a large blue-black spot; pods numerous, large and thick, two or three
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