Cultivation of ArahhLatid.--Bean&.~Quantily of Seed. -Methods of Coning. ;tf 



delayed too long, tlicre may ofcen be danger of the crops not being fuflkicntly 

 eftabliflied in the foil before the weather becomes too hot and parching. And, 

 on the contrary, when they are fet too early, there may be danger from the 

 frofts, which, when fcvcre, are known to injure them greatly at the time they 

 firft mew themfelves above the furface of the ground, and when accompanied 

 by fudden thaws to be capable of wholly deftroying them.* 



Where the lands are fufficiently dry, they may, however, fometimes be put into 

 the ground in the autumn or winter. For this purpofe the mazagan fort is the 

 mofl proper. 



Seed. The proportion of feed that may be neceffary, mud:, of courfc, be dif 

 ferent, according to the nature of the foil, the period of putting the crop into 

 the ground, and the manner in which the bufinefs is performed. Where the 

 broadcaft method is purfued, and the land is of the medium bean kind, from 

 three and a half to four bufhels is the quantity that is moft commonly allowed 

 to the acre. This mode of practice lliould, however, never be attempted 

 when the others can be had recourfe to. Under other methods of putting in 

 the beans, a much lefs proportion of feed is, however, required, the quantity 

 varying according to the diftance of planting from two to three bufhels and a 

 half to the acre, or in fome cafes perhaps rather more, of the fmall forts, and five 

 or fix of the large kinds. When planted in rows at the diftance of two and a 

 fcalffeet, the quantity of feed that is moft proper has been found to be about 

 two bufhels to the acre ; but when put in rows at the diftance of only fifteen or 

 eighteen inches, it will be three and a half bufhels, or perhaps rather more.f 



The manner of putting this crop into the foil differs confiderably in different 

 diftricts. In fome the method of fowing broadcaft is ftill in ufe; but in this 

 the feed is liable to be left uncovered on the furface of the land, or covered 

 fo lightly that the bean plants are incapable of vegetating in a proper manner, 

 from which the crop often becomes weak and feeble in its early growth, and 

 feldom acquires proper ftrength afterwards. Betides, in this method, from the 

 irregularity of the crop, there is great danger of its being injured by the growth 

 of weeds, as they cannot be conveniently deftroyed by the hoe. 



In others they are firft fown over the land, and then ploughed in with a 

 light furrow. 



It is the cuftom in fome of the more fouthern diftricls to plant this kind 

 of crop in rows, by means of a line and dibble, which, though an expenfive 



* Correaed Report of Middlefex, f Ibid. 



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