THE lfAKMKK 5 S MANUAL, J5 



MAY. 

 Beans. 



Plough in May, or early in June, such lands as you 

 Uesign to plant with beans ; your poor sand, or sandy, 

 or gravelly loams will answer ; provided you wet your 

 beans, and roll them in plaster, at planting. Set your 

 rows two and a half feet distance, and your hills from 

 one and a half to two feet distance in the rows, and 

 seed with 5 beans in a hill; the crop will always pay 

 you well, both as a tillage, and a fallow crop for 

 wheat, or rye, provided your bean lands can bear those 

 crops, with the aid of plaster, or such other dress- 

 ings, by the stronger manures, as you can give them. 

 Under this head I will insert an extract fro the New- 

 York Daily Advertiser upon the Heligoland Bean. 



" A friend of mine handed me the following inter- 

 esting account of the Heligoland bean. I am induced 

 to make it public for the benefit of those who have 

 possessed themselves of some of this valuable article. 

 They appear peculiarly calculated for the Northern 

 States, and I have no doubt will prove an advantage- 

 ous substitute for corn, where frost is apt to injure 

 the crop. A small quantity have been sent for the 

 benefit of the Agricultural Society of New-York, by 

 J. Barclay of London ; they arrived a few weeks since, 

 and have been distributed in various parts of the State." 



" The merits of those beans consist in their 

 extraordinary prolific quality, their perfect fulness 

 of form and thinness of skin, and in their ripen- 

 ing much sooner than the common sorts ; they are 

 short in their straw, and the pods which grow in 

 bunches, commence very near the ground. They 

 will succeed on soil not considered stiff* enough for 

 the common bean, and have produced generally, with- 

 out extra manure, from 64 to 80 bushels the acre. 



" At the annual meeting of the Agricultural Society of 

 Wiltshire, held at Devizes, July 20th, 1814, Mr. Phil- 

 lips produced two stalks, which 'had on them two 



