TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 109 



I found that 49 beans of No. 3. weiglied one ounce — this is 

 784 beans to a pound : and, the produce of the 33 feet of rows 

 being 54 ounces, must of course be 2736 beans. 



Now, as an acre planted in rows one foot asunder, will contain 

 43,560 feet of rows, and as four beans are reciuired to a foot (if 

 placed in the rows three inches asunder), the number of beans 

 required to plant an acre, in that manner, is 174,240, wliich 

 divided by 784 beans in a pound is 222 pounds two-tentlis, or 

 very nearly four bushels. If a reference be made to the deduced 

 produce, 4455 pounds, from No. 3, the return has been no more 

 than 20 from 1 of seed beans. This indeed is greatly inferior to 

 barley wheat, which, by dibbling, yielded a return of 405 for one ! 



From the preceding results it is clearly demonstrated that the 

 most protitable culture of kidney beans is in green fodder crops. 

 On the 12th instant, experiment No. 4, gave 34,320 pounds per 

 acre of nutricious fodder, from seed sown in the proportion of 222 

 pounds two-tenths per acre ; which is a return, in weight, of 

 150 fold ; and this in the short period of 50 days, after putting 

 the seed in the ground. 



Mr. Jennings, the Company's gardener at Plantation-house, 

 who has, for several years, cultivated beans of various sorts, as- 

 sures me that the black speckled are superior to any other ; they 

 bear sooner, and yield a more weighty crop. At Lemon Vjxlley, 

 a warm and well sheltered place, not much above the level of the 

 sea, he has obtained six crops in the course of one year, y*roMi the 

 same spot of land. A reference to the preceding experiments 

 will shew that this is very possible : but, supposing only four 

 crops a year from the same land, and to be used as green fodder 

 in the state of experiment No. 4, when it was cut on the 12th 

 of April, and yielded 15^ tons per acre in 50 days, the total 

 annual produce would be 60 tons, or 134,400 pounds from one 



