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texture to afford me the leaf! expedlation of fuc- 

 cefs by further ploughings. As the feafon was fo 

 far advanced, I ventured in that condition (rather 

 than lofe the opportunity of a crop) to drill in 

 horfe-beans, two bulhels to an acre, in the beft 

 manner I could, in rows twenty-feven inches dif- 

 tant, three inches deep, and three inches apart in 

 the rows, with irregular intervals between thofe 

 different fize ridges; which drilling was performed 

 in eight hours, on the 20th of April laft. This 

 •was the firfl operation of my new machine, the 

 cylinders whereof being then made of wood, were 

 injured by the hardncfs of the beans, confequently, 

 by its continual fridlion, did not deliver the beans, 

 at the laft working, fo regularly as I could have 

 wifhed; neverthelefs, my beans appeared, in a 

 very fhort time, fuperior to any planted by hand 

 in the neighbouring fields. 



On the 26th and 27th of May, the whole field 

 was hoed, with an inftrument containing three tri- 

 angular flat fhares, fixed in a plank, with a fhort 

 beam and wheel to render the working fteady, and 

 govern the depth, being about two inches; which 

 cut the weeds, the three fhares clearing the breadth 

 of near two feet, being guided by handles, the 

 fame as a plough. The fecond hoeing was per- 

 formed as before, on the 26th and 27th of June. 



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