bean-crop

Updated: May 2, 2025

The Army and Navy use huge quantities of the white beans, and the Allied Governments are also buying tons of the pintos. The 1917 bean-crop, in response to the patriotic appeal, was 50 per cent higher than the normal. Nearly all this increase was in the colored beans, chiefly pintos.

Katharine Blunt - Food Guide for War Service at Home : Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover

The monkeys live in the dense forests on the flanks of the toy mountains, and they flock down nights and raid the sugar-fields. Also on other estates they come down and destroy a sort of bean-crop just for fun, apparently tear off the pods and throw them down.

Mark Twain - Following the Equator, Part 7

The monkeys live in the dense forests on the flanks of the toy mountains, and they flock down nights and raid the sugar-fields. Also on other estates they come down and destroy a sort of bean-crop just for fun, apparently tear off the pods and throw them down.

Mark Twain - Following the Equator