FEBRUARY. 



sand of 10s. an acre. Beans are never seen in 

 Norfolk, on sands that lett from 10s. to 15s. and 

 even more per acre; and this is a deficiency in their 

 husbandry. 



QUANTITY OF SEED BEANS. 

 The quantity of seed will depend much on the 

 distance at which the crop is drilled or dibbled. It 

 takes about two bushels of horse-beans to an acre, 

 the rows equi-distant at 18 inches ; and it demands 

 six bushels of Windsors, put in in the same man- 

 ner. The quantity of seed proper for other va- 

 rieties, will necessarily be in proportion to the size 

 of the grain ; and the variation of distance in the 

 rows, will demand seed in proportion to these 

 quantities for the distance named. It is in almost 

 every case better to put in a peck too much than 

 half a peck too little. 



THE ROWS OJ? BEANS. 



Beans are drilled from 12 to ^4 inches, equt- 

 distant. In Suffolk, by many farmers at 11 inches* 

 but, on good land, they will then be evidently too 

 thick, and draw themselves no, without podding 

 below. Eighteen is a better didunce, and used by 

 the best farmers. In Kent, 14 and 16 inches is 

 the distance adopted by many. In Essex, I have 

 just stated double rows at nine, \\ith intervals of 

 27 inches. I have had great products on layers, 

 from double rows, at nine, with intervals of 18, 

 and also 27, that is, two flags planted and two or 

 three missed, for intervals ; the former, viz. the 



F 2' double 



