MARCH.] BEANS TO BE EATEX GREEN'. 1 .'5 t 



be postponed, and then, as with pease, the direc- 

 tions must be postponed in execution for one 

 month. 



BEANS TO BE EATEN GREEN. 

 Some experiments were made by a very ingenious 

 gentleman, in sowing beans for stall-feeding bul- 

 locks, while podded but yet green. It was not in 

 my power to ascertain how it answered, but atten- 

 tion to this scheme has been since recalled, by 

 another similar trial, for the use of hogs, by Mr. 

 Cross, and which has been published by Dr. Hun- 

 ter. The circumstances merit attention. He drilled 

 garden beans at three feet, and afterwards turnips 

 in the intervals. When the beans began to lose 

 their flowers, and to shew a disposition to pod, 

 they were drawn by hand and given to 38 pigs, 

 1O weeks old, well littered with straw. These 

 were bought the 18th of May, and were kept on 

 clover till the beans were ready. The beans being 

 consumed, the pigs were sold the 18th of Septem- 

 ber for 40 1. beyond the prime cost, and they made 

 40 loads of rich manure. They consumed four 

 acres of beans. To persons who make it a point 

 of using hogs as the means of raising large quan- 

 tities of manure (and there is no more effective 

 way of doing it), these hints may be very valuable. 

 Beans used for this purpose may be off the land 

 very early, probably much earlier than these were 5 

 and in time for putting in another crop imme- 

 diately, either late turnips or cole-seed, and the 

 land .cannot be in the least exhausted. With this 



K 2 view, 



