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experience, It will not answer in America, 

 which may easily be conceived, as even 

 in England various parts require different 

 management. 



Notwithstanding Mr. Boadley's good in- 

 tention to his countrymen, in pointing out 

 those rotations, I am certain from experi- 

 ment and observation that none of them 

 will succeed : where he has tried the Ame- 

 rican bean and pea as a meliorating crop, 

 he justly remarks that it is precarious, or 

 they would be more generally grown. I 

 had a neighbour who was at a considerable 

 expence in planting twelve acres of the 

 Avhite beans, and raised what appeared to 

 be a very good crop : a fall of rain came on 

 at the time they were ready to harvest ; 

 and, as they cannot be reaped, from the 

 shortness of stem, but must be pulled up 

 by the roots, and laid on the ground for 

 some time before they can be thrashed, 

 they were entirely lost from the dirt hang- 

 ing to the roots : they cannot be housed or 

 stacked up, as field beans are in England. 



