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Show will makesummer ron canning beans At a meeiliiK of the Hoard of Dlrect-r Dlrect-r of tho I .Ti J Canning Co., held Monday. It was pnictlrally decided K. an string bean Hie coming summei The benn eioi comes on at an eail er season thiin tomatoes and will not intoifere in any ui.inner with the can mIiik of loimitoes, for which 1"0 actes liHto already been contracted. The specie usually. planted Is the . Mf tufugi-f vailety and an ordln- mill produces fioin four to ten . por acre A price of from $3S t( ,10 ier ton is usually paid by tho aimers, which at tho lower prlci .vouhl make tho yield from $140 ti nfin per acre. Tlio picking commene h In .'lime and liiBts almost till tho to nnto season, and re(illres a lot ol hlldrrti to do the picking, and mini) Iris to picimrc them for packing In ho cans. Twenty acres of good beans ifcnuse of their bulklnenF, are abotn ll that the i ehl plant can handle It wn- tUncon .triife'l la-t inr thu he blither 1nnds nre more adopted t( he khiwIiik of ton.vtoes nnd for till, lason lion i ly all tho contracts thlt ear ale on tho upper lands. Iloans ioweer will thrive best where there Is plenty of moisture to keep them 'jlossomlng, and for this reason It lr nolmblo that tho lower lauds will be isod. Final action on tho question vlll be taken by the directors next week. |