■^oS fe X P E R I M E N T S O N Part IIL 







:" quantity of beans, fovvn on an acre of land, is about thrce bu(}iels : 

 .", but this is double the quantity which need be fown, efpecially 

 " according to the new hufbandry." 



. As neither M. Duhamel nor his correfpondents, are very particu- 

 lar in relation to the culture of this ufeful plant, we beg leave to add 

 Mr. Miller's direftions for the management of beans, according to 

 the new hufbandry. 



" The ground, fays he, fliould be four times plowed before the 

 " beans are fet, which will break the clods, and render it muclv 

 " better for planting. Then, with a drill-plough, to which a hopper 

 *' is fixed for fetting of the beans, the drills fliould be made at three 

 ** feet afunder, and the fpring of the hopper fet fo as to fcatter the 

 *' beans at three inches diftance in the drills. By this method, lefs 

 " than one bufhel of feed will plant an acre of land. When the 

 *' beans are up, if the ground is ftirred between the rows with a 

 " horfe plough, it will deilroy all the young weeds; and when the- 

 " beans are advanced about three or four inches high, the ground 

 " fhould be again plowed between the rows, and the earth laid up 

 *' to the beans : and if a third plov/ing, at about five or fix weeks 

 •' after, is given, the ground will be kept clean from weeds, and the 

 " beans will ftalk out, and produce a much greater crop than in 

 " the common way. 



" When the beans are ripe, they are reaped with a hook, as is. 

 " ufually pradifed for peais; and after having lain a few days on the 

 " ground, they are turned,, and thi^ muft be repeated feveral times,. 

 " until they are dry enough to flack : but the befl method is to tie 

 " them in iniall bundles, and fet them upright; for then they will 

 " not be in fo much danger to fuifer by wet, astvhen they lie on the 

 " ground; and they will be more handy to carry and flack, than if 

 " they are low. The common produce is from twenty to tv/enty- 

 " five bufhels on an acre of land. 



" The beans fhould lie in the mow to fweat, before they are 

 *• threfl^ed out: for as the haulm is very large and fucculent, fo it is 

 " very apt to give and grow moifi: : but there is no danger of the 

 '-'beans receiving damage, if they are flacked tolerably dry, becaufe 

 " the pods will preferve the beans from injury ; and they will 

 •* be much eafier to threfh after they have fweat in the mow, than 

 .Uxbefore; and after they have once fweated, and are dry again, they 

 t^iiiever after give. 



*'.By the new hufbiindry, the produce has exceeded the old by 



