Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1917 — STORAGE OF BEANS AND PEAS [ARTICLE]

STORAGE OF BEANS AND PEAS

Keep beans for winter use by picking the pods as soon as they are matured and spreading them in a warm, dry place, such as an attic floor, until the beans are thoroughly dry. Then shell and store in bags hung in a dry, well-ventilat-ed place until needed. Allow navy and other bush -beans to mature on the vines until a maximum number of pods are ripe, then pull the whole <plant and cure" it like hay. After thorough drying, thresh the beans and store as suggested above. Peas may be treated like bush beans and stored in the same manner. Send for Farmers’ Bulletins 874 and 879, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. These give full information free of charge.