Show uintah basin bean seed S eed crop shows profit farmers experiment with bean crop for peppard seed company and show good results by bv C II if wilkerson employees of the peppard company have been cleaning testing figuring and paying for garden seed beans which uintah basin farmers grew for them on contracts this year the acreage was sm small all because the project wa an experiment to see what could be done in growing and handling the crop and to soe see what hat quality and quantity of crop could be pro deuced here and whether thero would bo be a profit for the farmer who grew the crop several crops were gor goc 1 1 I enough that the farmers who grew re then should be complimented for what whai they have done the following tabulation shows what some farmers did this year and what a lot of farmers could do another year otis horrocks planted 4 acres net cash per acre yield per acre 1234 lbs ibs tony garcia 7 acres net cash per er acre 2944 yield per acre ab ibs art 3 acres not ne cash per acre 1875 yield per acre lbs ibs carl bracken 8 acres net let cash per acre 1887 yield per acre lbs ibs francis todd 5 acres net cash per acre 2516 yield per acre lbs ibs ben G dye dyc 6 acres net cash per acre yield per acre 1110 lbs ibs NOTE mr air dye chose to take the profit sharing option in ill the I 1 contract so he did not get all his money this Ms is the amount he could haw have had if he had wished to take it all now net cash is amount received after replacing seed and i i paying for threshing I 1 contract basis I 1 the contract on which these thesel I 1 crops were grown provides that the company furnish the seed to plant and pays the growers either cither a fixed amount per hundred ibs of increase or on a profit sha sharing basis as the farmer may choose i when n he signs garden seed beans are handpicked hand pic picked ked before they are sold hand handpicked planting picked eked beans were fur 1 1 dished for p planting therefore the beans were tested for pick after I 1 they were cleaned over the mills and settled for on handpicked hand picked basis after the equivalent of seed planted was deducted in order to get at just what cash money the farmers had left to spend the company paid the threshing machine bills on each crop separately after that was deducted from the total amount due dle for growing crowing the crop the ig growers r owe rs received the amounts set down by their names in other iseah words otis I 1 horrocks lor rocks replaced the iseah he fie had planted paid for th the threshing machine work and hae hac left for liis his efforts on foul and a half acres an average e 0 oi per acre A number of other farmers hat crops almost as good as some ol 01 0 f these there were a few however who did not get gat their crops planter plantee right or watered at the right time some did not get them cultivates i right or made some other mistake such as planting on ground tha was not properly I 1 prepared re pared 0 where the prairie dogs ate up the crop 1 most of the men mentioned here i have already figured out ways to grow still better crops of beans and wo we believe the bean seed crop il i i the tha uintah basin can be made into hito a large and profitable industry austry what it takes to grow beans 1 good farm land kanj well drained and reasonably free from alkali 2 good thorough preparation of the land if possible it should be plowed i in n the fall and aid worked down and irrigated in the spring early enough to start the weeds I 1 so they can be killed by disking I 1 and harrowa ig before planting time then it should be worked to kill the weeds and make a good seed bed about the middle of may imay after that if there is enough mols mois 1 1 ture to to germinate the beans andl and bring aring them up it is time to plant if there is not sufficient moisture in the ground to start the crop it may be better to plant them and irrigate them up 3 good seed planted at the rate of about sixty pounds per acre from two to three inches deep depending on the kind of soil and the moisture in rows twenty four to twenty eight inches apart about the last week in may 4 frequent shallow cultivation when the leaves are arc not wet rain or dew to keep down the weeds and ridge up the beai bea i rows so that the stalks will be braced to carry a big crop and so that the crop cabe can be cut properly maybe there will be some gaea leea chopping too but if the weeds are started and killed before the beans 1 are planted there will be very little of this 5 irrigation water in furro furrows ws often enough to keep the boan bean bright green and thrifty but no flooding or long soaking flooding scalds beans and usually bifi them too much water at a time tine turns them yellow and stops the growth until they recover it should not be necessary to irrigate beans to get them up if the seed bed has been prepared properly but if it is necessary run the water in furrows between the rows just long enough to soak the bean seed 6 cut the bean with a bean harvester when they are arc mature and before the pods break off or burst open and bunch them right a way away 7 thresh with a bean thresher thresh er that gets the beans out of the pois pods without breaking or splitting the beans if work on the bean crop is done at the right time it can be done i rapidly without slighting the job ole one man with a tour four row bean drill pulled by two horses can plant about twenty acres a day or two hundred acres in ten days one man with a four row bean cultivator pulled by two horses can do a good job of cultivating on about fifteen aar acres es a day after the man and horses get onto the job they can do more than that one man with a two row bean i harvester or cutter buile J 1 by two borses ca can cai i cut five or six acres acre s a day the cut cutter ter leaves the beans I 1 in windrows wind rows two men with pitchforks can bunch the beans about as fast as tho the cutter cuts them beans had best be stacked as soon as they are dry enough unless they ca can cal l be threshed right away they do not have to be as dry to stack as they need to b be to thresh in the stack they settle down and cure out so that they thresh bresh better than from the field the stack should be on hard dry oun l with a ditch around it tc keep beep flood water off or on e c loor floor so that the crop can bo be gathered up clea clean L the stacks should be covered fresh cut alfalfa hay makes a good stack cov er beans planted the last week in may should be ripe and ready to harvest about the first or second abek in september there is plenty of time before planting t to 1 kill 1 the weeds and make a firs first tocla class s seed bed and there is plenty of time after they are arc cut to plait pla it winter wheat the cultivation helps the ground for the crops that ome come after the beans usually if 1 eans are grown for two I years cars in succession on the same land the second crop will be better than the first after that it is time to change cha ige because disease is more likely to get established chere beans are grown too long on the same land and because the bean land is ready to grow a dandy crop of something else red clover is adapted to the good lands of the basin ald a ld red clover seed brings big cash returns |