. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. BEAN, BROAD BEAN, BROAD 213 ten parts of corn. If the plants are grown for their seeds, the seeds or grain should be allowed thoroughly to ripen, when the plants may be cut with an ordinary corn harvester. A fair yield of beans is about thirty bushels to the acre. After threshing, care should be taken to see that the grain is thoroughly dry, otherwise it may heat in the storehouse. Uses. The broad bean has a diversity of uses,—the grain as food for man and stock, the fodder for silage and soiling, and the plant as a cover-crop and soil-ren
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. BEAN, BROAD BEAN, BROAD 213 ten parts of corn. If the plants are grown for their seeds, the seeds or grain should be allowed thoroughly to ripen, when the plants may be cut with an ordinary corn harvester. A fair yield of beans is about thirty bushels to the acre. After threshing, care should be taken to see that the grain is thoroughly dry, otherwise it may heat in the storehouse. Uses. The broad bean has a diversity of uses,—the grain as food for man and stock, the fodder for silage and soiling, and the plant as a cover-crop and soil-renovator; and "coffee" may be made from the beans. The plant has been largely tested at some of the Canadian experimental farms, and is frequently mentioned in the reports of these exper- imental farms. In the report for 1904 (pp. 125, 126) is the following discussion of its use as a cover-crop : "In the report for 1903, experiments on the use of the English horse bean and hairy vetch were described. It was shown that horse beans and hairy vetch sown in rows twenty-eight inches apart had given very satisfactory results. These were sown in this way because it is sometimes difficult to get a good 'stand' for a cover-crop in the autumn, by sowing about the middle of July and later, owing to the dry weather which often occurs after seed- ing, delaying the germination of the seed; and in the North it is very desirable to have the cover- crop tall, so that it will hold the snow. By sowing the seed in , it can be sown comparatively early, and the soil cultivated between the rows when the plants come up, thus conserving moisture and making sure of a good cover-crop. Cultivation may be discontinued about the middle of July or a little later. The horse beans sown on June 18, 1903, were three feet six inches to four feet in height on September 21, and it was estimated that the green crop per acre was 7 tons 733 pounds above ground and 2 tons pounds of roots, or a
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