292 RUSSIAN BEAN. 



Note on White Mustard apjjended to the above. 

 By Ph. Pusey, Esa. 



Mustavd is certainly not in g'eneral a dang-erous food for 

 slieep; but ns one instance of serious injury has occurred 

 from its use in my own neig'libourliood, it is rig'lit that the 

 circumstances of that injury should be known, in order to 

 prevent the recurrence of a similar loss. They are stated as 

 follows, in a letter from Mr. Williams of Buckland : — 



" I am sorry to say I have had a loss with my sheep from 

 eating' mustard ; but I consider it purely accidental. My 

 son had sown about 8 acres; in six weeks it was fit for the 

 sheep ; we did not begin it, however, until the end of about 

 nine weeks. For the first four da3\s the sheep ate it well ; 

 and wishing" to consume it as quick as we could, to plough, 

 the land ibr wheat, my shepherd, seeing the sheep do well, 

 ventured to give them double the quantity ; the consequence 

 was, tlie whole flock of 20.5 ewes were all of them in a most 

 alarming state when found in the moi'ning — five of them 

 being dead, and most of the others much swollen ; only the 

 five, however, died, and I consider it was entirely from giv- 

 ing them so much. After a few days, we ventured the same 

 sheep upon the rest, and finally they finished it without any 

 failure. 



Art. LXV.— RUSSIAN BEAN. 

 By Mr. Hev.'itt Daais. 



This bean, which I believe originally came from Eussia, 

 greatlv resembles the Heligoland, and is becoming generally 

 known as the Russian or winter bean. Its capabilities to 

 stand our winters in tlie south, when sown in September and 

 early in October, I have fully tested, having grown it every 

 year the last sixteen or seventeen years, and never saw it hurt 

 except on springy land, or when it has been later sown. I 

 think it a most valuable introduction for loamy soils; the 

 advantages from growing it are, that it does well on soils un- 

 suited for spring beans, aifords an excellent alterative crop and 



