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seed was sown in drills, distant from each other from twen- 

 ty-eight to thirty inches, on the llth, 12th, and 13th of 

 April. The quantity sown was twelve Winchester bushels, 

 and both horse-hoeing and hand-hoeing were duly attend- 

 ed to. The months of May and June were dry, but the 

 rain fortunately came on about the end of July, the blos- 

 soming became universal, exhibiting an uniform surface of 

 stalks; in general upwards of six feet in height, many nine, 

 and some even ten feet high. Many of the stalks had from 

 40 to 55 pods. The whole exhibited a sight, equally beau- 

 tiful to the eye, and agreeable to the smell. Many fields in. 

 different parts of the county, (the season in general proving 

 unfavourable to the bean crop), had been mown down for 

 green food to horses, where there was not the smallest indi- 

 cation of beans. This crop, however, turned out very dif- 

 ferent, a rich and luxuriant crop having been cut down on 

 the 4th of October, and safely secured in the stack-yard 

 upon the 2d of November. The produce of clean market- 

 able beans, from the two acres and seven falls, was rather 

 above 25^ bolls, or 102| Winchester bushels; he had paid 

 for the seed 9 s. per bushel ; and if he had sold the produce 

 at the same price, instead of using the greater part of them 

 in the stable, his crop would have yielded L. 46, 16 s., be- 

 sides the benefit of the straw, which could not be calculated 

 at less than L. 10 more. The crop was raised without the 

 aid of dung, and after two crops of oats. 



6. Tares. This article is not much cultivated in Scot- 

 land, a few acres only on every farm being raised for soiling 

 horses, between the cuttings of clover ; but Mr Allan of 

 Craigrook has carried it to a still greater extent, as he con- 

 siders tares one of the most valuable and .profitable crops 

 he can cultivate. The proper time for sowing tares far 



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