Show 11 beans promise cash beans especially the dry edible land kind such as great northern pinto etc have yielded two thousand pounds per acre aid more of merchantable table beatus beams here in the basi u at five cents a pound which is something less than the present market deet such a crop would be worth otee onte hundred dollars an acre A farmer who had ten su such c h acres 4 giuld auld get something more than a thousand dollars for his crop if every farmer in the basin had such 6 a crop to sell the total would amount to two or three million dollars of course two thousand pounds per acre is a big yield but it is not exceptional the average for idaho this season is estimated estimated at 1428 pounds but the average for twin falls county idaho is reported to be about 2400 and there are records of crops making pounds per acre the yield seems to depend on the farmer wid aad his farm and of course to some extent on seasonal conditions land that is to be planted to beans must be thoroughly fitted and prepared pre paired for the purpose since beans should not be planted until the ground is warm and danger of frost is past which is about the first week in june the farmers have ample time and opportunity to work it over as many times as it needs having properly prep prepared axed his hii land and grown a crop of beans on it he has that yield in such a condition that A very small am amount t of work will put it in first class shape for whatever crops he wishes ashes to plant after the tha beans are off being legoms beans beams add nitrogen to the soil thus fertilizing it for the next crop under present conditions beans should not mot only be a profitable crop here for their own sake but growing a crop of beans will put the land in a state of and fertility that will make the succeeding crops more profitable also with all these chese good features of bean growing there is additional satisfaction in knowing that the agricultural outlook for 1929 published by the government last spring says with domestic consumption of beans apparently increasing at the rate of over half I 1 a million bushels annually it appears aaa our present meeds are in in excess of bushels that figures out to be about ten pounds for each man woman and child ini the united states probably most people could be persuaded to eat cat more beans in another place the outlook says net imports for the year ending june 30 1928 were bushels which is about one oae tenth of the annual consumption mentioned above probably it is better business for us to produce a crop that is I 1 imported m p arted to some extent rather than to produce one ome that usually has la a surplus to export |