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When beans are sown in drills, the rows are 

 generally from two to two and a half feet distant 

 from one another. Pease do not answer to be 

 drilled, when sown by themselves, as they will 

 fall over into the intervals, and be in danger of 

 rotting, through the want of air, and too much 

 moisture in the hollow. 



id y Sort. The small horse-bean, the grey- 

 pea, and the hasting, are the kinds most com- 

 monly cultivated. 



3<y, Seed. An acre will require from a boll to 

 five firlots of pease, when sown unmixed; and of 

 clean beans, from seven to eight firlots. When 

 sown together, more or less is allowed between 

 these extremes, according as the beans or pease 

 predominate in the mixture. 



4/, Time of Sowing. From the 1st of Feb- 

 ruary to the 20th of March. 



5//>, Culture while Growing. Drilled beans 

 are horse and hand-hoed, as often as circum- 

 stances may require. But when sown broad- 

 cast, or mixed with pease, or when pease are 

 sown by themselves, seldom is any culture gi- 

 ven them while growing. 



6tb t Harvest. Beans and pease are cut with 

 the sickle, and laid down on straw-bands, if 

 clean beans ; but if clean pease, or pease and 

 beans mixed, they are laid upon bands made of 

 the pease ; and allowed to remain in that state 

 for some time. They are then bound and set 

 up in stocks, the part of the sheaf that lay un- 

 dermost, being always put to the outside of the 

 stook, and the stooks sometimes covered, and 

 sometimes not. In this situation they are al- 

 lowed to remain till they be fit for the barn- 

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