Show idaho man sees great future for the uintah basin in bean growing industry basin farmers learn about beans beams twin falls idaho man ilan answers many questions ten educational meetings on beang bean were held at various basin points last week as part of the J G peppard seed compa ay iy s campaign to get the bean bea n growing industry under way here T 13 duncan of twin falls idalio idaho was the chief speaker A big part of the time at eich each meeting was occupied iby by questions efrom the audience and answers by mr air duncan and C P peppard the atten attendance darace at the meet meeting iriv 3 showed that a lot of uintah basin people are interested in the possibilities of this new industry and the akad of questions qu they asked showed that their interest is sincere and intelligent and that they have given the subject a lot of 0 serious thought the follower ig ag are a few of the important points that were brought out the dry ediete bean industry Is a great geat deal larger than trost most of 0 us realize for instance government figures show that the people of the united states eat about eighteen million bushels of beans a year wad arid that this consumption is increasing at the rate of f ibe hundred thousand bushels a year the 1929 crop was unusually large but was waa only about eight per cent greater thau thata the average ea consumption this increase was due to unusually favorable growing conditions condit ioris ious in 1929 most y yeara aara about ten per cent of the beans consumed in the united states have to be imported it Is expected that before tile the 1930 crop comes orl OM the market american bean growers will be bel protected by a tariff of three dol lars per hundred weight beans are so profitable on the twin falls tract where land Is 19 worth from two hut hundred adred to thred thre 3 hundred dollars an acre that they occupy about one fourth ot of all the crops land and bring brine about third of all the maaen mc received by farmers tor for all products for example in 1929 out of acres ot of land acres were in beans beana and out of some seventeen billiou dollars worth of fabin products sold there were almost six million colars worth of beans great northern is the principal variety grown there because of it abundant yield wad aud is very tree free from disease being white and easy to cook it sells well too continued on page eight IDAHO MAN SEES GREAT FUTURE FOR THE BASIN IN BEAN GROWING INDUSTRY from page one idaho growers who keep careful accounts find that they can produce beaus for three dollars per hundred weight and pay interest ou ora two hundred dollar land pay taxes water i t lint fiance depreciation on machinery cot of 0 seed and tarm threshing laing and good wages to ss wad their help practically all the work of growing the crop is done with machinery seed bed preparation planting cultivating cutt Dag windrow ing and bunching and in some cases evera picking up for the thresher and mainly the only hard work la ban bunchong ching and onto the wagons and into the thresher Altai although augh special bran threshers thre ahers have some advantage a considerable part of 0 the threshing Is dome and done well with converted grain thre threshers Convert izat a grain thresher to thresh beans Is not very expensive although beans can be planted easier wad aud taster faster with regular bean and beet planters they ean can also be planted with corn drills or grain in drills regular bran wad aud beet cultivators tiva tors are nicest to use tor for cultivating tiva ting but other cultivators can be used if the seed bed is ii thoroughly prepared and properly irrigated mid emd mulched hoeing will usually b be Wa unnecessary necessary very few twin falls bean growers do any hoeing at all A great many of them from twenty acres acrea on up bad and a si single rale man may handle eighty acres up to thresh IMS mr air duncan wag wad greatly impressed with the yields some ot of our uintah basin farmers hive have produced ile he thought they were remarkably mar mr kably big some of the best bast yields in I 1 the basin were with great northern beans beanie too Sho that this variety will do well here mr peppard explained that the J G peppard seed company wished to help develop d the beau bean industry here partly because the company and needs other products to handle in connection with alfalfa seed wa aid partly because became the company Is convinced that with more rotation and more cultivation we w will ivill hive have cleaner and bigger crops of alfalfa seed and less leas chance of failure ile he was somewhat disappointed to find that the signup was only about halt half what the company had hoped tor for he feels that a larger I 1 acreage 0 f beans planted baat aurally enable the co mp any to m maintain a I 1 n tor for the jean ban glowers browe rs in them in handling belr crops to the oie best advantage and aad therefore with tho i great greatest est profit ap r mr air peppard and mr duncan baft the basin for salt lalie lake city saturday afternoon atter noon bir air bhinda diina ari n w was as very bathus lastic Ab ab oat atthe the grat bean grow tow towi i ing aad lie he feels sure that w we e are goens to have bave a success here T |