Finish bean harvest, and resow rows with chard and beets.

"We figure the wheat pool at five million bushels and the soybean pool at 12 million bushels, about half of which were wanted for delivery in November, when this year's bean harvest should be finished."

They have just finished their bean harvests down there, and the bean oil and meal are now moving through the world trade pipelines.

They arrived here to find their entire bean harvest stolen.

"But this year, they have stretched out their exports of their fairly large bean harvest through this month because of the rampant inflation there," Mr. Loewy pointed out.

Mashed beans and lard - a dish perhaps to be compared to refried beans or hoppinjohn- were offered to her as res divinae, and thus the day was known as the Kalendae fabariae, the Bean-Kalends, since at this time the bean harvest matured.

The weevils infest stored grains and destroy up to 15 percent of the total bean harvest of Latin America and 25 percent of the harvest in Africa.