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they were drawn by hand, and given to 38 pigs, 

 ten weeks old, well littered with straw. These 

 were bought the 18th of May, and were kept on 

 clover tiil the beans were ready. The beans being 

 consumed, the pigs were sold the 18th of Septem- 

 ber for 401. beyond the prime cost, and they made 

 40 loads of rich manure. They consumed four 

 acres of beans. To persons who make it a point 

 of using hogs as the means of raising large quan- 

 tities of manure (and there is no more effective 

 way of doing it), these hints may be very valuable. 

 Beans used for this purpose may be off the land 

 very early, probably much earlier than these were, 

 and in time for putting in another crop imme- 

 diately, either late turnips or cole-seed, and the 

 land cannot be in the least exhausted. With this 

 view, there should be a succession of plantings in 

 February, March, and April. 



BEANS BETTER THAN OATS ON LAYS. 

 " To sow oats on a lay newly broken np, espe- 

 cially if such ground has been many years in grass, 

 is at all times ver> luznrdous, and frequently causes 

 a total destruction of the cr >p, an instance of which 

 I experienced iu the spring of the year 1/71. The 

 preceding winter had been very severe, with a con- 

 tinuation of unkindly weather till late in the spring, 

 for at the close of the month of April the ponds 

 were covered with ice, and sharp frosty nights in- 

 tervened till the lOlh of May. Early in the monsh 

 of March I sowed with oats a sainfoin lay that had 



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