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oil-cake or beans twelve times, the quantity of nutritive matter 

 contained in turnips. A consideration of this has often reminded 

 me of the great additional labor incurred by those who give 

 turnips w'lolly as food to the amount of 170 lbs. to 180 lbs. per 

 day. A feeder who maintains 100 head of cattle will be convey- 

 ing at the rate of 23 to 25 tons w*eekly of superfluous water from 

 his field, of which the effect will be to increase the bulk of his 

 manure without adding to its value. Some small advantage is 

 derived from the watery property of the turnip, particularly when 

 stored, in consequence of its supplying beverage in a less chilling 

 state than by cold water alone, from drinking freely of which in 

 severe weather I have seen cattle seriously chilled. 



My crop in succession to mangel or turnips is that of beans, 

 which I prize highly for my purpose, affording as it does a large 

 amount of the nitrogenous element. I have hitherto cultivated 

 the common kinds of field-beans. On the recommendation of an 

 acquaintance, who stated that I might reckon on a much larger 

 produce from the long-pod or garden-bean, in 1856 I set out 

 amongst a crop of field-beans an interval of 1070 yards for trial 

 of the sword variety of long-pod beans. The produce was care- 

 fully weighed and found to be of — 



Field beans, white blossom, 52 bus., of 63 lbs., at 55.,__ Xl3 

 Straw, fully 2 tons per acre, ._ 4 (T 



X17 



Long pods, on 1670 yards 1435 lbs. = 66 bus. of 63 



lbs. per acre, c£l6 10 



Straw, 1 \ tons per acre, ._ 3 10 



£20 



The garden or long-pod beans having ripened a fortnight be- 

 fore the field-beans, and having been left standing till the same 

 time, had lost almost all their leaves. Their appearance, however, 

 denoted a less weight of straw even if cut sooner than the field- 

 bean. The price of bean straw, 2/. per ton, is low in proportion 

 to its value in the analysis given in Vol. XVII., p. 263, of R 

 Ag. Society's Journal. 



