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a man more than a day to make with a hoe. If^ 

 short, an ox, or ahorse, and a man and a boy, 

 will do twelve acres in a day with ease. And to 

 draw the drills with a hoe would require forty- 

 eight men at the least ; for, there is the line to 

 be at work as well as the hoe. Wheat and even 

 Peas are, in the fields, drilled by machines; but 

 beans cannot, and especially kidney beans. Drills 

 must be made: and, where they are cultivated on 

 a large scale, how tedious and expensive must 

 be the operation to make the drills, by line and 

 hoe ! When the drills are made, the beans are 

 laid in at proper distances, then covered with a 

 light harrow (frame of White-Oak and tines of 

 jLocustjJ and after all comes the roller, with the 

 teeth lifted up of course ; and all is smooth and 

 neat. The expense of such an apparatus is really 

 nothing. The barrel of the roller, and the teeth- 

 bar, ought to be Locust, which never perishes, 

 and the shafts and frame of White-Oak, which, 

 even without paint, will last a life time. 



165. In order to render the march of the ox 

 straight, my ground was ploughed into lands, one 

 of which took the ten rows of kidney-beans ; so 

 that the ox had only to be kept straight along 

 upon the middle of the land. And, in order to 

 have the lands flat, not arched at all, the ground 

 was ploughed twice in this shape, which brought 

 the middle of the lands where the furrows were 

 before. If, however, the ground had been flat- 

 ploughed, without any furrow, there would have 

 been no difficulty. I should have started on a 

 straight side, or on the straightest side, leaving 

 out any crook or angle that there might have 

 been. I should have taken two distant; objects, 



