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as long as that instrument could be admit- 

 ted to pass between the rows to advantage. 

 Parting with my farm prevented this expe- 

 riment. It is said that white beans are 

 generally in great demand in Madeira and 

 the southern countries of Europe. I have 

 seen letters from Barcelona, stating the price 

 of " white beans" higher than of wheat. 

 Other sons of American beans, as well as 

 several sorts of American peas, I have culti- 

 vated ; and the crops of all sorts were 

 rather precarious ; peas generally more so 

 than beans. Until some other plant shall 

 be introduced that will answer the purposes 

 better than beans, for a fallow crop, the 

 farmer ought to think nothing of six or eight 

 shillings a bushel for them to be applied to 

 produce a shading ameliorating article of 

 fallow, although not a seed should ever be 

 gained from them : preserving the system 

 being so very important ! But a worthy 

 person assured me, she used to cultivate 

 country peas or beans (I am not certain 

 which) till the pods were well filled, and 



