ents when the price of
beans was high and it is important to get many on the market the next
day.

[Illustration: Harvesting the hay crop at Marien's.]

Mr. Anderson: What are your gross receipts per acre for beans?

Mr. Marien: That is a hard question to answer, as sometimes it is very
poor for the medium and late beans, and sometimes there aren't any
receipts at all. (Laughter.) But the early beans sometimes go as high as
$250.00 an acre.

Mr. Anderson: How late can you plant them and be sure of a crop?

Mr. Marien: We have planted them as late as the 15th of June.

A Member: You mentioned Davis as your first variety. What is the second
one?

Mr. Marien: The Wardwell Kidney. We always plant the two varieties at
the same time because if we strike a wet season then the Davis does
well, and the Wardwell won't do as well in wet weather but will do
better in dry weather.

Mrs. Glenzke: Will you tell me the color of your beans? Are they golden
wax?

Mr. Marien: Yes, some golden wax and some green string beans. We haven't
as good a market for the green ones.

Mrs. Glenzke: Have they a string on the back?

Mr. Marien: Some have and some have not. There is the Bountiful, or the
Thousand to One; that is a small green string bean that hasn't any
string. But they are very hard to pick; so we don't raise many of them.

Mrs. Glenzke: Have you ever tried Golden Pod?

Mr. Marien: I think that is a wax bean?

Mrs. Glenzke: Yes.

Mr. Marien: Oh, we don't like them, at least not on the St. Paul market,
because they are hard to pick. I don't know how it is in the Minneapolis
market.

A Member: What is the best of the green kind?

Mr. Marien: We find that the Bountiful is a very good bean; and then
there is also the Red Valentine.

A Member: Did you ever grow any Crusset Wax?

Mr. Marien: No, sir, I have not. Of course, there are some kinds that
are just the same, but they go under different names in different
places. Different catalogs will catalog the same seeds in a different
way.

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BEWARE BLIGHT CURES.--Almost every year orchardists are
persuaded to try some new, so-called "blight cure" or preventative, only
to find later that they have wasted time and money in the experiment.
Government regulations regarding fake remedies of this character are
more strict than formerly, but there are still some agents trying to
dupe the public into buying their wares.

Blight, wh