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mount to 9000, or from that to 10,000 acres ; 

 and, therefore, according to the calculation be- 

 fore made, the whole produce will be from 

 72,000 to 80,000 bolls. 



BEANS AND PEASE. 



Beans and pease are cultivated sometimes se- 

 parately, and sometimes in a mixed state. Beans 

 are either drilled or sown broad-cast. They 

 thrive best, and consequently prevail most, in 

 ,the northern and southern districts. In the 

 middle and upland part of the county, they 

 produce, in general, but a scanty and precarious 

 crop. Between six and seven thousand acres 

 may be annually applied to the raising of this 

 kind of grain. 



iy?, Preparation. Pease and beans, being a 

 a green crop, and of an ameliorating quality, 

 are generally introduced after white crops, par- 

 ticularly wheat or oats, according to the scheme 

 of rotation followed by the farmer. When 

 beans are sown as a preparation for wheat, they 

 commonly get the dung : but when they 'ollow 

 wheat which has been sown on a summer-fal- 

 low, and to be succeeded by barley or oats, they 

 are allowed none. It deserves to be remarked, 

 that in the culture of pease and beans, lime is- 

 a manure of peculiar efficacy, insomuch that on 

 many different kinds of ground, be it never so 

 well dunged, if it has not been previously lim- 

 ed, they never thrive nor produce a tolerable 

 crop. 



