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grown-up people will run away with them. The case 

 is similar to that of bean growing- ; in the Barony of 

 Forth, where it is very frequent, the crops arrive at 

 maturity without loss; they are familiar to the na- 

 tives — nohody there improperly meddles ^vith them ; 

 hut if I should sow a field of heans at Ballyorly, 

 where they have never yet been seen, my young- 

 neighbours would save me the trouble of puIUng a 

 single bean. Sow turnips, every one of you, next 

 June, and you wall not lose many stones of them by 

 theft : and sow a few Swedes in Mav, and Aberdeens, 

 as well as some of the globe kind later, in order to 

 have a successive supply for late spring- feeding the 

 following- year. 



No. XIII. 



On weeding land, poor Pat small care bestows, 

 Tho' weeds are farmers' most pernicious foes, 

 What pure deliglit to careful eyes it yields 

 To see the Scottish lasses in the fields, 

 * Sans shoe or stocking, handling tidy hoes 

 And cutting every weed that shews its nose ! 

 Yet to my mind, the Wexford maid surpasses 

 In beauty, tho' not industry, Scotch lasses. 



Beans are much cultivated in the Barony of Forth, 

 where a compost of sea weed, sand, and earth is easily 

 prepared, and where the soil is peculiarly favourable 

 to them, but I beheve they are seldom or never 

 sown in drills there, except on Mr. Meadowe's model 

 farm at Hermitage. The broadcast plan is a very 

 slovenly one, requiring a greater quantity of seed, 

 giving less produce and affording infinitely less benefit 

 to the succeeding crop of corn than the drill method. 

 The book to which I have before referred (A Report 



* A French word, signifying without. 



