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much greater accuracy than any hand can do. 

 Light drills may be had to wheel along the ground, 

 like a wheel-barrow. The use of such an instru- 

 ment will save money, at the same time that it 

 performs the work much better. A farmer who 

 has land proper for beans, should, on no account, 

 avoid giving a particular attention to that crop ; 

 for it will prove one of his surest funds of profit. 

 By means of beans, he may be able to lessen, if 

 not to banish, the custom of fallowing ; for a crop 

 of beans, rising in single rows on three-feet ridges, 

 or double rows at one foot, on four-feet ridges, 

 gives so good an opportunity for ploughing the in- 

 tervals, and also admits hand- hoeing the rows, that 

 the land may be cleaned as well as by a fallow, and 

 the crop succeeded by corn. But, if the soil be 

 in such order that this culture is insufficient to 

 clean it, then a second crop of drilled beans should 

 succeed, which will be very profitable husbandry, 

 and cannot fail of bringing the land into order. 

 Whenever beans are cultivated with this view of 

 substituting them in the room of a fallow, the farmer 

 should absolutely determine to drill or dibble them, 

 so as to admit the plough between the rows ; for 

 no hand work will clean and pulverize the land suf- 

 ficiently for this purpose, at least without an ex- 

 pence too great for the object. If the spirited 

 mdman calculates the expcnce of a summer 

 fallow, and also the account of a drilled bean crop, 

 he will find the necessity of this culture. Beans 

 do very well on loams, and on lighter ones than 



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