FEBRUARY. 61 



greater accuracy than any hand can do. Light 

 drills may he had to wheel along the ground, like 

 a wheel -bar row. The use of such an instrument 

 \vill save money, at the same time that it performs 

 the work better. A farmer who has land proper for 

 beans, should, on no account, avoid giving a parti- 

 cular attention to that crop; for it will prove one 

 of his surest funds of profit. By means of beans, 

 he may be able to lessen, if not to banish, the cus- 

 tom of fallowing ; for a crop of beans, rising in 

 single rows on three- feet ridges, or double rows 

 at one foot, on four- feet ridges, give so good 

 an opportunity for ploughing the intervals, and 

 also admits haud-hoi-ing the rows, that the laud 

 may be cleaned as well as by a fallow, and the crop 

 succeeded by corn. But if the soil be in such or- 

 der that this culture is insufficient to clean it, then 

 a second crop of drilled beans should succeed, 

 which will be very profitable husbandry, and can- 

 not fail of bringing the laud into order. When- 

 ever beans ave cultivated with this view of substi- 

 tuting them in the room of a fallow, the farmer 

 should absolutely determine to drill or dibble them, 

 so as to admit the plough or horse-hoc between the 

 rows; for no hand work will clean and pulverize 

 the land sufficiently for this purpose, at least uith- 

 out an expence too great for the object. If the 

 spirited husbandman calculates the expence of a 

 summer fallow, and also the account of a drilled 

 bean crop, he will find the necessity of this culture. 

 Beans do very well on loams, and pa lighter ones 



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