FEBRUARY. 65 



The barley stabble of the sixth year is clanged in 

 autumn, with farm -\arcl composts, and ploughed 

 after wheat-sowing is finished, on ridges of three 

 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 hund- 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 generally market- 

 able ; for in certain situations, it is not always easy 

 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 larger qmntity of straw, which makes ex- 

 cellent manure. But ?ome of the other sorts are 

 generally supposed to yield larger products. This, 

 however, is a point in which some well-conducted 

 comparative experiments are wanting. 



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