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in the fad condition above defcribcd, might be 

 more conveniently and efFedually cleanfed and im- 

 proved by forming the ridges by the bouts of the 

 plough, which would make them about four feet 

 and a half wide, and confequently there would be 

 intervals of near four feet for the hoe-plough to 

 work in. If the feafon fliould prove favourable, 

 and the intervals ploughed three times in the courfe 

 of the fummer, the foil would be reduced almoft 

 to a powder. 



Let us fuppofe then the field to be formed into 

 ibree-hout ridges as above, and the time for planting 

 beans arrived; with a common plough I make a 

 clean furrow on the crown of each ridge, about a 

 foot wide, and four inches deep, going down one 

 ridge and up the next, and fo on through the 

 whole field. The beans are then dropped in the 

 furrows, either in two rows, feven or eight inches 

 afunder, or in a fingle row in the middle of the 

 furrow, as reprefented below, No. I. No. W.X If 

 the feed be good, the difiance may be three inches 

 bean from bean; if otherwife, they fliould be 



planted 



