108 TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c, 



April 12. — Cut 33 feet of rows— Produce 26 pounds. This 

 being the 1320th part of an aore (if rows be one foot asunder) is 

 at the rate of 34320 pounds, or 15i- tons of excellent green-fodder 

 per acre, in 50 days after sowing the seed. During the growth 

 of this crop, the season was unusually favouralile — 7-r^ inches of 

 rain fell during the month of March. 



EXPERIMENT, No. 5. 



1812, March 3. — Sowed several rows of black speckled kidney, 

 and several rows adjoining with the negro or black bean. 



April 12. — Some of the black speckled are in blossom ; in 40 

 days — the negro beans are not so strong nor so forward — season 

 favourable — copious rains. 



Since I closed the preceding statement of thejive Experiments 

 in the culture of kidney beans, I have this day (the 16th of April) 

 ascertained the final result of No. 3, which was begun on the 9th 

 of January last. 



The leaves having entirely fallen, the pods being dry, and in 

 a state of ripeness, 33 feet of rows were measured. The produce 

 in clean beans weighed 54 ounces ; which being from the 1320th 

 of an acre, give the produce (rows one foot asunder) 71,280 ounces, 

 or 4455 pounds, or very nearly two tons per acre. It will be per- 

 ceived that the same length of rows in No. 1. produced, on the 

 23d of October, 1811, QQ\ ounces : — but it must be observed that 

 in No. 1. the quantity of seed sown was six or eight times greater 

 than in No. 3. A jug that contained 30 ounces of No. 1. crop, 

 contained very nearly 32 ounces of No. 3. crop, weighed at the 

 time it was gathered: but No. 1. was not weighed until two 

 months after being gathered. It is therefore probable, when 

 No. 3. is also dried, that the same measure of beans will be of the 

 same weight as the other. 



