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towards cleaning the land for the next year in 

 the bean-fallow ; for fuch land may be con- 

 ftantly managed, as above directed, with beans, 

 and wheat. 



This kind of land is iikewife liable to crack, 

 and to gape fo wide as to receive, to a confide- 

 rable depth, the foot of a horfe, and confc- 

 quently make it dangerous for man or bead to 

 walk over it. The pulverizing it in the man- 

 ner before mentioned, would in a great meafure 

 prevent the cracking. 



Where the old fyftem is followed, beans 

 very often fail of producing on this foil a good 

 crop, owing to too much or too little moifture 

 while growing. Oats profper on fome of this 

 fort of land ; and a crop of oats may be taken 

 after wheat, when the land is in good condi- 

 tion ; but I do not approve of fuch cropping. 

 Before the bean-fallow, the beans muft be drill- 

 ed and manured ; and if you beflow^.v loads 

 per acre in the drills, as before defcribed, the 

 land will be far lefs liable to crack ; for, by 

 moulding the beans, they will foon acquire 

 (trength and fize fufficient to fhelter the land, 

 and by keeping it fhaded prevent its cracking. 

 In mv opinion, peas are more proper than 

 beans for land fo circumftanced ; as, by lying 



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