&quot;72 Cultivation of Arable, Land. Beans. Kinds of. 



.on the more heavy forts of land, with fuccefs. Erom pea crops rendering the 

 lands on which they are cultivated more light, open, and porous, they are fuppof- 

 ed to be lefs proper for preceding wheat than thofe of beans ; on the more ftifF 

 forts of ground this cannot, however, be an objection of any great confequence, 

 und even on the lighter kinds it may often be obviated, by giving the feed earth 

 early, fo that .the crop may be put in upon a ftale furrow, by the ufe of thefheep- 

 foid, either immediately before or after the grain is depofited in the foil, and by 

 repeating the fame practice occasionally afterwards, as well as by rolling. 



The portion of peas that is not confumed as human food is moftly appro 

 priated to the purpofes of fattening hogs and other forts of domeftic animals ; 

 .and, in particular inftances, fupplies the place of beans as the provender of la 

 bouring ho rfes ; but care mould betaken, whenufedin this way, that they be 

 fufficiently dry, as, when given in their green Hate, they are faid to be apt to pro 

 duce the gripes. 



-Beans. This is afpecics of crop that may be cultivated to much advantage on 

 all the more heavy wet kinds of land, which are improper for moft other forts of 

 -crops, both on account of the utility of the produce, and the improvement that is 

 effected in the nature of fuch foils ; as by this means, as has been already feen, the 

 ground may in many cafes be rendered proper for the growth of wheat, without 

 having recourfc, as has been ufually done, to the uneconomical practice of pre 

 paring it by a naked fallow. 



There are different kinds of beans cultivated indifferent diftricts, according to 

 the intentions of the farmers, and the nature of the foils ; but they may be 

 fufficiently diftinguifhcd by dividing of them into field and garden beans. Of 

 the firft fort the common horfe-bean is the moft generally cultivated on the ftrong 

 lands, as it is found to grow to a greater height in the ftem, and of courfe to 

 -cover the furface of the land more effectually. The tick bean is, however, fup- 

 pofed by fome cultivators to afford a larger produce. The large ticks are the 

 fort moftly grown in the county of Kent, where the bean huibandry is pradifcd 

 to fome extent; but in Effex, where the fyftem of cultivating beans alfo prevails 

 in a coniiderable degree, the fmall ticks are held in the higheft eftimation, as on 

 the ftrong lands of that diftrict they are moffly found to afford an abundant pro 

 duce. And in the market this is the fort of bean that generally fetches the belt 

 price. 



Some of the latter or garden kinds have lately been introduced into the field 

 with confiderable advantage in particular diftricts. Of thefe the rnazagan and 

 mumford, the long pod, and the Windfor, are the forts that arc in general culti- 



