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Show Farm News-Notes By LEW MAR PRICE County Agent Milford Beans Harvested Forty acres of beans grown in the Milford Valley by Walter Weber and Stanley Atkin have all been harvested harvest-ed and threshed. The forty acres yielded approximately 32,00 pounilSy The Weber 20 acres yielded about 1000 pounds, or approximately $55.00 per acre at the present price. The price is expected to improve materially. mater-ially. Several other smaller patches were grown by different people on the Flat as an experiment to test them out against alfalfa seed and as a supplemental supple-mental crop. This is Mr. Weber's second year at growing beans, and he feels very much encouraged over the prosyects of the crop for that district. f Tour To Lower Valley Planned As announced in the paper a week ago potato growers of the Beaver Valley will make a tour to the Min-. Min-. i:-v;!e fields where contract potato growers will be busy harvesting cooperatively co-operatively the large potato crop of that district. From the Minersville fields the :rioup will cross the Milford Flat and visit the community livestock show which will be in progress there, and thence into town where the mechanical mechani-cal grader will be in operation classifying classi-fying the potatoes into standard U. S. trades. In the evening there will be a meeting meet-ing in Minersville nf all the potato grower? of the county. This meeting is of very great importance to all l i ov. ors, and all should make every i ''ort iK-'-s-sary to attend.- |