. SEPTEMBER 



WHEAT AFTER BEA\ r S. 



* Beans, if well cultivated, form the best prepara- 

 tion for wheat ; I have seen in Kent a field of wheat 

 which followed four preparations, bean's, clover, 

 tares, and fallow, and the first was superior to all 

 the rest ; next the cloyer, then the tares, and the 

 worst was after the fallow. If our young farmer 

 has a bean-stubble on which he intends sowing 

 wheat, he should be as early as possible in giving if 

 the due tillage; this will depend on soil, for on 



sqrne it will be more advantageous to trust to the 



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shim, scarifiers, and scurBers v than to the plough. 

 If the laud is very clean, the great Isle of Thanet 

 shim will cut th rough every thing, and loosen tlie 

 surface sufficiently to enable the harrows to leave it 



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as clean and fine as a garden, women attending to 

 pick and burn. If less clean, the Kentish" broad- 

 sbare may do the work more effectively. In other 

 cases the scufEer may be equal to the business. 

 When lie has got the surface to his mind, he is to 

 consider whether or not he should plough it, which 

 is advisable if the soil be of a firm, solid, tenacious 

 quality, and if he does not intend to drill the 

 \yheat: if he ploughs such a soil, be may not have 

 any apprehension of root- fallen wheat, failing 

 roots from a loose bottom ; but he will bring' up a 

 new surface that may drill with diliiculty : whereas 

 that which has received the influences of the crop, 

 atmosphere, and of his late operations, will be in 

 exactly the right temper for the drill to work in. 



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