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beans clean by hoeing, ploiigli the stubble once, harrow, 

 and drill or dibble in the wheat seed. 



Many are also cultivated at Billingford, where tliey are 

 in the same system: Mr. Drake avoids spring tillage, 

 ploughing befpre Cliristmas ; has a set of seven small har- 

 rows, which dropping into every hollow, prepares well 

 for the dibbles ; rows at nine inches : he hand-hoes twice, 

 Jceeping them quite clean. I viewed liis crops and found 

 them perfcftly so, and very fine, equal in apj^earauce to 

 five or six quarters an acre ; yet they seemed too thick, 

 and not podded so low as they would have been with more 

 room. 



Mr. Pitts, of Thorpe Abbots, has this year {1802) 

 drilled beans with Cook's machine, at 12, 18, and 24 

 inches, and lie thinks th.e 24 promise to be the best crop. 

 They have been liorse and hand hocd, and kept quite 

 clean. All will be eight coombs an acre at least. 



Mr. KiRRiCH, at Harieston, lays his manure on for 

 beans, and then drills wheat, getting great crops. 



Mr. Baldwin, near Harieston, drills many beans, and 

 gets great crops, as well as of wheat, after them. 



Through the hundred of Loddon the beans are all dib- 

 bled, one row on a flag, and all the farmers sow wheat 

 after them, finding it the best preparation for that grain. 



Mr. Burton, of Langley, whose knowledge of hus- 

 bandry is extensive and unquestioned, upon the strong land 

 at Hempnal has always had excellent wheat, perhaps the 

 best, on bean stubbles. 



At Langley and the vicinity, average produce ten 

 coombs. Mr. Burton never Jess than that ciop at a 

 medium ; this vear above twelve. 



At Seething and MunJiiam many beans, and great crops: 

 wheat after ihcm. Here are excellent farmers. 



Admiring the fine sandy loams at Caj^tor, in Fleg, and 



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