Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — What a Single Bean Can Produce. [ARTICLE]

What a Single Bean Can Produce.

The history of a single bean, accidently planted in a garden at Southbridge, Alass., is traced by a newspaper correspondent, who figured out its produce for three years. The bean was planted in a rich, loamy soil, and when gathered in the autumn its yield, as counted, “1,515 perfectly developed beans from a single stalk. Now, if a single bean produces 1,515 beans, and each beau produces 1,515 more, the sum total of the second year’s product would be 2,295,225, equal to 2,195 pounds, 597 quarts, or 2,390 army rations, equal to 18$ bushels. This would l>e the product of the second year. Now, if we plant this product and the yield is the same, we nave a product of 5,268,800,625 beans, equal to 1,371,890 tons, or 42,871,572 bushels, or 548,756,068 soldiers’ rations. The third planting would give the steamship Great Eastern 92 full freights.” Few beans, however, stai t so well as this oue did.

A Berlin correspondent bears from a well-informed quarter in St. Petersburg, that during the recent correspondence between the Czar and Emperor William, the latter assured the Czar in a special private letter, that neither he nor 4iis son would ever make war against Russia, and cordially invited the Czar to visit Berlin on his way to Cannes. The Czar replied that he could not come himself, but the Czarewitch would visit the Emperor.

Recently a train was halted on the 1., P. A C., by what appeared to be the figure of a man lying on the track. The cars passed over it before they could be stopped, when, upon examination, an old suit of clothes, staffed with straw, was found.