134 MARCH. 



the beds or stitches in the smallest degree. 

 With this management, all spring works are much 

 accelerated. However, February certainly may, in 

 some seasons, pass without the farmer being able 

 to put in his crop of pease. In that case, the 

 work must be done in March, by the direc- 

 tions given in February, whether for drilling or' 

 dibbling. 



* BEANS. 



February is the month in which the farmer 

 should be active in putting in this crop. Some 

 delay it for the more tender sorts, but I have re- 

 marked in many trials, that even these have suc- 

 ceeded belter when sown in February. Should the 

 weather prevent early work, of necessity it must 

 be postponed, and then, aswith pease, the directions 

 must be postponed in execution for one month. 



BEANS TO BE EATEN GREEN. 

 Some experiments were made by a very ingenious 

 gentleman, in sowing beans for stall-feeding bul- 

 lock^, while podded but yet green. It was not in 

 my power to ascertain how it answered, but atten- 

 tion to this scheme has been since recalled, by 

 anothei similar trial, for the use of hogs, by Mr. 

 Cross, and which has been published by Dr. Hun- 

 ter. The circumstances merit attention. He drilled 

 garden beans at three feet, and afterwards turnips 

 in the intervals. When the beans began to lose 

 their flowers, and to shew a disposition to pod, 



they 



