62 SORT OF BEAST- 



L. 



Designed, probably, to throw the return of clo- 

 ver to the eighth, instead of the fourth year.- 

 The barley stubble of the sixth year, is dunged in 

 autumn, with farm-yard composts, and ploughed 

 after wheat-sowing is finished, on ridges of t- 

 feet ; two bout ones. In February, they dibble a 

 double row of Windsor-beans, on the crown of 

 each ridge, nine inches from row to row, which 

 leaves an interval of twenty-seven inches for clean- 

 ing. They are exceedingly deficient, in not horse- 

 hoeing so wide an interval, applying the hand-hoe 

 only ; but they do this three or four times ; and, 

 if the stubbles are in the least foul, they are very at- 

 tentive to hand-hoe them for the wheat which suc- 

 ceeds. Their avoiding spring-tillage for the beans 

 has much merit. This practice they carry so far, 

 as neither to scarify, nor even harrow, putting the 

 seed into the frost-worked surface, and their suc- 

 cess is a justification of the system. 



SORT OF BEAN. 



The common little horse-bean has the advan- 

 tage of all others, in being more gcneralK 

 able ; for in certain situations, it is not alv. 

 to dispose of ticks, Windsors, long-pods, and va- 

 rious other sorts. They also grow higher, shade* 

 the ground in summer more from the sun, and 

 yield a ' piantity of straw, which in 



nt manure. But some of the other sorts arc 

 generally supposed to yield larger produos. This, 

 however, is a point in which some well -conducted 

 comparative experiments are wanting. 



soil. 







