Show BEAN ClIL CULTURE TURE LESSON NO I 1 auy BY A J taylor diet lei leder der boy boys and girls club work 4 SED SEIB IP seed Is the most important single A factor in crop production and in order to obtain laria yields the seed should be carefully selected by hand for this contest work workbox both boh boys ond nud girls and tho the mutual beans should be hind picked discard all crack cracked td small and ob shrunken beans discolored beana beans strange spots should be rejects i d Dp lanting only the bright 4 clean seed preparation RATION bf OF SOIL beans will grow on almost aay ay kind of soil from adobes to light sandy loams coams they do best however on warm sandy loams and silts the land and should be covered with a liberal coat of M manure irre and then plowed from eight to ir 10 ti inches deep after plowing plow lag the land bo be W worked down into a soca f firm irm seed bed with harrow and drag theland the land should be harrowed well just before planting FLAWING beans aro arn a hot bob weather crop seed 1 s injurious affected if it is punted in a cold soil germination will not tike the soil Is cold and if the soil happ ensio to be wet enough rotting may take place before the soil warms up sufficiently to permit germination beach will not stand any frost con they should not be planted until the soil is thoroughly warmed I 1 up and the danger of frost is past it takes 75 to 00 90 jays days to mature the tho crop so that planting must be done within the next two weeks METHOD OF PLANTING when the beans are to bo be hand hind cultivated land and worked intensively they should be planted in rows about 20 inches apart and there should bo be yo about six inches i between the hills bills in the row plant three or four beans to thel bil ard thebe should be thinned to two plants per hill after they come up when tho the cro crop P is to be fi n se cultivated the rows should be about 28 to 30 80 inches apart otherwise the same as whan hand cultivated beans should bo be planted from one to three inches deep depending of courna on the type of soil plant shallow in heavy soils and deep in light soils plant at the r rite ate of 30 to 85 35 pounds per acre and after planting make tho thu surface soil comp act over the beans bean by firming nath tho the harrow |