This Week in Odessa History

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From The Odessa Record

February 6, 1914

The Department of Agriculture issued a bulletin stating that the land of eastern Washington, eastern Oregon and northern Idaho was well-suited to adding beans as an additional crop besides cereal crop. 15 years experience showed that as good cereal crops can be grown following beans as after an ordinary summer fallow. The cultivation of the bean crops replaces the work necessary to care for the fallow and leaves the soil in excellenct condition for seeding winter wheat.

Beans do not seriously compete with wheat for labor and the two crops c...