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of an acre of it I had dug with the fpade, in order 

 to mark the difference between that inftrumentand 

 the plough. A plot of the ground thus dug was 

 planted witli beans, in rows three feet afunder, and 

 about four inches apart in the rows. It was wheat 

 ftubble, very poor, and full of weeds, and. dug but 

 once. The beans came up well, but the feafon 

 proved moft unpromifing. When three or four 

 inches high, they appeared to be ftruck with the 

 blight, and the tops were infefted by a great number 

 of infedls, not unlike a large bug, which made 

 great havock among, and threatened the deftruc- 

 tion of the whole, for the plants declined faft. I 

 thought a fair opportunity now offered of trying 

 what benefit might be derived from eftedual cul- 

 tivation. I caufed them to be deep and well hoed, 

 and the earth drawn up to the ftems of the plants; 

 the good effeifls of this were foon vifible, their 

 verdure returned, and they tillered out afreih; 

 the weeds too came up very thick and ftrong, and 

 grew apace. I then had the intervals dug full ten 

 inches deep, and the weeds in the rows pulled up. 

 This gave frefli vigour to the plants, they kidded 

 finely, and totally overpowered the weeds for that 

 feafon. A few rows of thcfe beans were gathered 

 green for the ufe of the family, the remainder flood 

 for feed. Many of them, efpecially thofe that 

 were gathered green, put up frelh flioots from the 



roots. 



