Mr. Marien: Well, we generally employ pickers, boys and girls, and we pay them about twenty-five cents a bushel when they are above a dollar and a quarter, and then we keep going down; as the price goes down we go down too; but we have paid as much as thirty cents when the price of beans was high and it is important to get many on the market the next day.
Harvesting the hay crop at Marien's.
Mr. Anderson: What are your gross receipts per acre for beans?
Mr. Marien: That is a hard question to answer, as sometimes it is very poor for the medium and late beans, and sometimes there aren't any receipts at all. (Laughter.) But the early beans sometimes go as high as $250.00 an acre.
Mr. Anderson: How late can you plant them and be sure of a crop?
Mr. Marien: We have planted them as late as the 15th of June.
A Member: You mentioned Davis as your first variety. What is the second one?
Mr. Marien: The Wardwell Kidney. We always plant the two varieties at the same time because if we strike a wet season then the Davis does well, and the Wardwell won't do as well in wet weather but will do better in dry weather.
Mrs. Glenzke: Will you tell me the color of your beans? Are they golden wax?