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pods, yielding 490 beans. In the spring of 18io ; 

 Mr. Phillips planted a bushel and a half of these 

 beans, on half an acre of land, (a poor day,) at one 

 ploughing, without manure, and they produced the as- 

 tonishing quantity of 52 bushels, Winchester measure. 

 " Several stalks of these beans were produced, and 

 the Committee declared them to be infinitely superior, 

 in point of productiveness and quality, to any other 

 sort ever introduced into the country, and felt it their 

 duty to recommend them not only to their own mem- 

 bers ; but to the public at large, who they were cer- 

 tain would derive great benefit from their introduc- 

 tion."'' Nezo- York paper. 



'0 Remarks* - 



The value of the white field bean has been general- 

 ly known and approved in our country, both for the 

 table and for stock, particularly for sheep and hogs ; 

 but the improvement of the Heligoland bean as above, 

 surpasses any thing of the kind heretofore known, 

 and will give an additional value to our tillage, and 

 to our farms, in facilitating the means of increasing 

 our stock of pork, and thus increasing our stock of 

 the very best manure. Beans have generally been 

 admitted as a good fallow crop, in keeping the 

 ground clean without exhausting the soil ; but it has 

 been a serious objection to beans as a fallow crop, 

 that they ripen too late, and thus delay the sowing of 

 the winter grains beyond the proper seed time, to the 

 damage of the crop. This objection, when true, 

 is a serious one ; but this it is now found may be ob- 

 viated by cutting off the top of the bean vines, as 

 soon as the first blossoms begin to drop; but not 

 before, as they will sprout again. 



For the truth of this remark, I am indebted to Sir 

 John Sinclair, who states, that the practice waslntro- 

 duccd into field husbandry by John Lowthcr, Esq. 

 BI. P. through his Bailiff, or overseer, George Lane, 



