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Show GREAT NORTHERN WHITE BEAN Acclimated, Developed and Grown Extensively Ex-tensively in Montana as Well as in Dakotas. (Prepared by the United States Depa.-c-ment of Agriculture.) American agriculture inherited a legacy from the Mandan Indians of the Northwest which indicates the red skins' real ability to till the soil and to. till it well. The Great Northern white bean, acclimated, developed, and grown extensively in Montana as well as North and South Dakota, ' the gift of the Indian warrior to his paleface pale-face brother. It is the -only variety of bean which will mature as far north as the regions in which it has been grown, its extreme earliness qualifying it for harvest In plenty of time before Jack Frost goes on the warpath. The Great Northern bean came into the limelight during 1918 as a valuable valu-able food product during the war emergency when 40 carloads were marketed mar-keted at Billings, Mont. Previously the United States department of agriculture agri-culture had experimented in various latitudes with this leguminous crop and had ascertained that the variety was adapted only to northern conditions, as It would not make a profitable yield as far south as Washington, D. C, although al-though at a high altitude in the region re-gion of Rocky Ford, Colo., the new bean made good. Specialists of the department suggest the Inadvisability of attempting to grow this bean in the bean bells of either New York or Michigan. Mich-igan. That this bean Is white helps much in making it salable, but its size and shape vary sufficiently from the customary white sorts to require some little work in creating a healthy de-ma de-ma nd. |