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The produce of corn is much affected by weather. 
if this be hot and dry, the leaves, stems and ears are 
all diminutive ; if wet, the leaves and stems are abun- 
dant, but the ears deficient and often diseased; if 
both wet and cold, no ears are produced ; and onthe 
other hand, if moist and warm, (more particularly 
when the grain is flowering) the crop is excellent.— 
To produce this combination, is not within the reach 
‘of human industry. All, therefore, that agricultural 
foresight can effect, is to interpose a few days be- 
tween the planting of different parts of the crop, so 
as to multiply the chances of favorable weather. 
- IX. Of Beans. 
Of these, there are several species, which to occu- 
piers of clay soils, are of the utmost importance, be- 
cause in them the beans thrive best, while at ‘the 
same time they greatly ameliorate and fit them for 
wheat and oat crops. The species most recommend- 
ed, are the Heligoland or small horse bean of En- 
gland, and the white bean. The former is vigorous, 
hardy and productive, and an excellent food for cat- 
tle; the latter is more delicate and nutritive, and 
much employed as a food for man.(1) 
If beans are made to commence a course of crops, 
as they may very properly do, they ought to receive 
the dung of the year, which, as in the case of pota- 
toes, should be spread over the surface of the field 
and ploughed in without loss of time. The moment 
the spring frosts are over, the planting should take 
place—in rows or in bills, (as described in the last 
(1) Pythagoras forbade his disciples the use of beans—whence we may orn 
that the Greeks cultivated only the horse bean, or bean of the marshes. 
