IV. CULTIVATION IN GENERAL. 



might make the paths, the harrow might smooth the 

 ground,, and the hand-driller might be used for onions, 

 or for any thing else. However, what I did, in America, 

 for Kidney Beans, was this. 1 had a roller drawn by an 

 :, or a horse. The roller was about eight inches in 

 diameter, and ten feet long. To that part of the frame 

 of the roller, which projects, or hangs over, beyond the 

 roller behind, I attached, by means of two pieces of wood 

 and two pins, a bar ten feet long. Into this bar I put ten 

 teeth; and near the middle of the bar two handles. The 

 roller being put in motion, breaks all the clods that the 

 harrow has left, draws after it the ten teeth, and the ten 

 teeth make ten drills, as deep, or as shallow, as the man 

 chooses who follows the roller, holding the two handles 

 of the bar. The two pieces of wood, which connect the 

 bar with the hinder projecting part of the frame of the 

 roller, work on the pins, so as to let the bar up and down, 

 as occasion may require j and, of course, while the roller 

 is turning, at the end, the bar, with the teeth in it, is 

 raised from the ground. 



93. Thus are ten drills made by an ox, in about Jive 

 minutes, which would perhaps require a man more than a 

 day to make with a hoe. In short, an ox, or a horse, and 

 a man and a boy, will do twelve acres in a day with ease. 

 And to draw the drills with a hoe would require forty- 

 eight men at the least ; for, there is the line to be at 

 work as well as the hoe. Wheat, and even peas, are in 

 the fields, drilled by machines j but beans cannot, and 

 especially kidney beans. Drills must be made : and, 

 where they are cultivated on a large scale, how tedious 

 and expensive must be the operation to make the drills, 



