BEAN. Phasolus. In the United States the bean is a tender annual, either dwarf or climbing, and is cultivated both for the succulent green pods and ripe seeds. The dwarf varieties vary in height from twelve to twenty-four inches, and require no poles.' The climbing varieties require poles for their support. There are varieties inter medial between the bush and climbing bean, but which do not require support as the White Mar row, one of the best of the white varieties to be used as dry, ripe beans. Among the vaiieties used as string beans, the Turtle Soup or Tampico. Bean produees abundant runners two feet or more in length. Beans when planted in drills—the usual and proper way for all the dwarf and half 'dwarf varieties—should be sown, as to the drills, thirty inches apart, to allow of horse cultivation; and if the drills are bedded up by running a horse hoe lightly between before sowing, on ordinary prairie land, it will increase their earliness and assist in the ease of cultivation, and subsequently the hilling with the horse hoe. When ripe, the
crop is allowed to stand until the pods are quite dry, and pulled by the roots while moist with dew, the roots being pressed together in the hand and the handfulls set upon their tops in windows to dry. When sufficiently cured, they are to be laid loosely on scaffolds or laid around branched stakes, the roots in and the tops pointing down, to become quite dry before threshing. When threshed, the beans should be cleaned from the chaff in a fanning mill and be spread on a smooth airy floor and turned, from time to time, until they are entirely cured; thus they will not heat and mould when put in barrels. For the general crop of dry beans, they should not be planted