83 Cultivation of Arabic Land.* Beans.* Reaping the Cr$ps.- Produce of. 



be done either in the flack or to the fample. Indeed, as this fort of vegetable 

 is extremely fucculent, it is proper in moft cafes to let it remain out after being 

 cut for a confiderable length of time, in order that the exceifive moiflure majr 

 be fully diffipated, otherwife the fample may fuflain great injury from mouldi- 

 ncfs, and taking on too great a heat in the flack. It may alfo on thefe ac 

 counts be necefTary for them to remain in the flack for fome time before they 

 are threihed out. 



There are different methods of removing this fort of crop from the land : !n 

 fome diflri&amp;lt;5ls it is the practice to reap or cut it clofe to the ground with a fliarp 

 hook contrived for the purpofe ; in others it is mown ; and in a few it is pul 

 led up by the roots, being afterwards bound up into pretty large fheaves by 

 woollen yarn, old ropes, tarred cord, or ftraw ropes, and fet up three or four 

 tether. 



In cafes where wheat, tares, or other fimilar crops, are to be fown after beans, 

 they mould be fet up in fuch a manner as to cover as little ground as poflible, in 

 order that the cleared ground may immediately undergo a fuitable preparation 

 for fuch fucceeding crops. 



The quantity of produce of beans is different according t the nature of 

 the foil, the kind of feed, the method of planting, and the exactnefs with which 

 the after-culture of the crop is conducted. In Middlefex it is flated to be from 

 three and a half to four quarters the acre : and in Yorkfliire, when cultivated 

 as a preparation for wheat, from four to fix quarters the acre; but where the 

 crop precedes a fallow, only from two to three quarters. In other diftridfo, as 

 in Kent, where the bean hufbandry is more perfect, the common tick beans arc 

 faid to afford from two to fix quarters, according to circumflances ; the maza- 

 gan, and other fmall beans of the fame fort, from three to five quarters, and 

 fometimes confiderably more ; and the Wind for, long-pod, and other large forts 

 of beans, from three or four to ten quarters the acre.* Taking it through 

 out the whole kingdom, it is aflerted by an able writer to vary from fixteen to 

 forty bufhels the acre, but that a good average crop can feldom be flated at 

 more than twenty. f 



The flraw of this crop is ufeful for various purpofes. When well broken by 

 threming, it forms a durable litter for working horfes, as well as hogs and 

 other animals. It is alfo alferted to be a hearty and nutritious food for cattle 



* Correded Reports of Middlefex, North Riding Yorkshire, and Kent, 

 ,.-|- Dojialijfon b Modern Agriculture, vol. II, 



