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in a new area, who would be relatively inexperienced in handling snap beans. We have found these beans to be quite perishable. They must be picked at the right time and carefully handled.
Undoubtedly your contract will call for machine grading in which 'case the bean would have to be 86% number 1 grade.
The $3.76 would probably only prove adequate in 1952 if the company furnished the seed and agreed to do whatever insect and disease control work was necessary (without cost to the grower.”
Mr. Dovel figured his labor cost at about l%c per pound while J. Marvin Powell who most of you know works closely with Virginia farmers in connection with their labor problems says average costs are around 2|c per pound.
Thus from the above I’d. sav* first of all the beans must be planted on good productive soil that will make around 300 bushels per acre instead of 175 bushels when well fertilized; secondly what your labor supply is . . . both family and hired, and thirdly what. I. N. Dovel Co., is (willing not billy to pay but to furnish as well. :
Never put off a hard job till tomorrow. Put it off for good.
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