J 90 AGRICULTURE. 



Cultivation of ^^^ in some parts three, breaking it with harrows, raking 

 beans a ad and hand-picking it. I had, by the 20th of September 

 wheat, &c. 1804, the satisfaction of seeing it in a better situation 

 than any fallow in the neighbourhood, and began to 

 plough for wheat ; on the 29th it was completely 

 drilled, rolled, and water-furrowed. My friend Mr. 

 Green, a member of the Society, who visited the field, 

 was so struck with the busy scene, that he requested to 

 have the people and the horses counted. There were 

 fifty-nine men and women, and thirty-one horses ; four- 

 teen single, and one double cart, four ploughs, four har- 

 rows, drill, roller, and water-furrow plough, a horse 

 each. It took sixty-two and a half Winchester bushels 

 of seed: I had sixty carts of compost per acre, composed 

 of dung, ashes, and street-rakings, that had been collected 

 during the summer, and laid in the most convenient situ- 

 ations to facilitate the work. The filling, leading and 

 spreading of 2500 carts of compost was a work of some 

 magnitude ; the month of October proved so wet, that, 

 had it been delayed a week later, I should not have been 

 able to have accomplished it. • The labour it cost me after 

 the beans were cut Avas very little inferior to a regular 

 fallow; notwithstanding, the result, with this increased 

 expense, will be found to be in favour of the experiment. 

 The tick bean, wliich was sown on thirty-nine acres out 

 of the forty, produced more abundantly than the other 

 bean, which was sent me by Messrs. North and Bridge, 

 ar.d, being a later bean, is not adapted to this climate. 

 The crop was good; one stalk of the tick bean had 70 

 pods, and these produced 353 beans; the weight, four 

 stone thirteen pounds the Winchester bushel ; the other 

 bean, four stone four pounds. The crop produced 20JO 

 stooks; from a few stooks which were left out of the stacks 

 for the purpose of affording specimens for the Society, I 

 have reason to suppose they will yield ten quarts per stook, 

 or C28 Winchester bushels, I estimate by the London 

 seed,'which is least productive. The selling price is five 

 shillings per Winchester, which would make the ainount 

 i^l67 9*. 4d. The stooks had been exposed to the in- 

 spection of various persons who wished to see in what 

 ptate the beans were, so that I suppose some loss in the 



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