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ip-nded!rsof)e-ia'nt-9.”*UtCANNING BEANS MAKE GOOD CASH CROP, SAYS W TOMCHECKWalter Tomcheck, Town of Newton Farmer Ha* Found The Raising of Canning Beans Profitable Over Twenty-five Year Period(Herald-New* photography)One of the best paying cash crops in Manitowoc county it- this fall was canning beans.. The above picture shows a Jj* field of canning beans on the Walter Tomcheck 60-acre farm in the town of Newton. Mr. Tomcheck raised one-half acre ?i °f green beans and one-half acre of wax beans.The wax beans did not yield, very heavy this year, Mr. Tomcheck says, but reports a fairly large yield fromt his green canning variety. The above picture shows the family out in the field picking. .On. this particular day he was going over the one-half acre of'green beans for the second time, and estimated his harvest for that day at 700 pounds, making the total amount taken from that variety of about 1,500 pounds.. Reading from left to right the pickers are: Annie Tomcheck, Henry Kramer, neighbor boy; Edward Tomcheck, and Mrs. Walter Tomcheck. Mr. Tomcheck was on the job, too, that day, but missed out on the picture. Canning beans have been a cash crop on the Tomcheck farm for nearly a quarter of a century, and Mr. Tomcheck declares it is one of the best paying cash crops he has ever raised during that time. Back in1916, he says,.the sum of $368 was realized from a one-acre patch of beans.The soil on Mr.-Tomcheck*s farm is in .a high state of fertility, and crops grow rank under the proper care. No commercial fertilizer has ever been used, but the field on which he plants his beans is given a liberal: application of barnyard manure each year, and the beans planted on new ground. . ...To the left may be seen a portion of a field of Iowa Gold Mine com that he expects to put in the silo. This stands on the average about seven feet in height and is one-of the best stands in the community.ilende‘spyndjeertoinven,id-js.B8-of60routtut;h,ittatis.:htral20irein-?s-lean-ild•urre-
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Manitowoc Herald News
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Sep 03, 1931
Page 6
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