FEB.] BEANS AFTER BARLEY. 5p 



commonly imagined ; but on light gravels, sands, 

 &c. more profitable crops may be substituted. Let 

 the fanner remember the general maxim, if he 

 ploughs for beans this month, never to allow his 

 ploughs to stir while the land is wet : if his horses 

 poach at all, or his ploughs do not go clean through 

 the land, he will lose, or greatly damage his crop, 

 But improvements, and especially those which have 

 taken place in Middlesex, but most of all in Suf- 

 folk, have opened a new field for this cultivation, 

 which will be explained in this work. The grand 

 basis of it is, to banish spring ploughings, by lay- 

 ing the land ready in autumn, for either dibbling 

 or drilling. 



BEANS AFTER BARLEY. 



The barley stubbles intended for beans, or land 

 -whereon clover failed, having been ploughed into 

 the proper stitches, and laid dry for winter, are 

 now ready for drilling or dibbling. It will pro- 

 bably be the end of the month before the season is 

 suitable for this work. The same attention must 

 be paid to this crop, as to barley, in respect of 

 avoiding spring plough ings, and also to effecl every 

 operation without permitting the horses to set a 

 foot on the land. They are ever to move, in spring, 

 only in the furrows. As this is the first month for 

 putting in beans, it will be proper for the young 

 farmer to consider, whether he shall adopt the 

 system of drilling or of dibbling, setting, or plant- 

 ing, as the operation is in different districts diffe- 

 rently termed. 



IDibbling 



