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** great : but from many years experience, I can confirm, that the 

 *' fame fpace of ground will produce a greater quantity of beans, 

 " when planted at this diftance, than if double the quantity of feeds 

 *' are put on it. In the management of thefe latter crops of beans, 

 ** the principal care Hiould be to keep them clear from weeds, and 

 " any other plants, which would draw away their nouitlliment ; to 

 " keep earthing them up, and, when they are in blolTom, to pinch 

 " off their tops, which, if fuffered to grow, will draw the nouridi- 

 " ment from the lower blolToms, which will prevent the podi ■■ 

 " from fetting, and fo only the upper parts of the ftems will hi 

 " fruitful : and another thing ihould be obferved in planting of the 

 '* fucceeding crops, which is, to make choice of moilt flrong land 

 *' for the later crops ; for if they are planted on dry ground, they 



" rarely come to much. In warm dry light land, all the late 



** crops of beans are generally attacked by the black infedls, which 

 ** cover all the upper part of their Items, and foon caufe them to 

 *' decay, 



" The horfe bean delights in a ftrong moifl foil, and an open cx- 

 " pofure : for they never thrive well on dry warm land, or in fmall 

 *' inclofures, where they are very fubjedl to blight, and are fre- • 

 " quently attacked by a black infect, which the farmers call the 

 " black dolphin. Thefe infedls are often in fuch quantities, as to 

 *' cover the ftems of the beans entirely, efpecially all the upper part 

 *' of them, and when this happens, the beans feldom come to 

 *' good : but in the open fields, where the foil is ftrong, this rarely 

 *' happens. 



" Thefe beans are ufually fown on land which is frefh broken up, 

 *' becaufe they are of ufe to break and pulverize the ground, as alfd 

 *• to deflroy weeds ; fo that the land is rendered much better for 

 ** corn, after a crop of beans, than it would have been before, 

 " efpecially if they are fown and managed according to the new huf- 

 ** bandry, with a drill-plough, and the horfe-hoe, and to ftir the 

 "ground between the rows of beans, which will prevent the growth 

 •' of weeds, and pulverize the ground, whereby a much greater 

 " crop of beans may, with more certainty, he expected, and the 

 " land will be better prepared for whatever crop it is dtfigned for 

 " after. 



■ " The feafon for fowing of beans is from the middle of February 

 " to the end of March, according to the nature of the foil : the 

 " jflrongeil and wet land ihould always be lafl fown. The ufual 



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