BEANS. 



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combining the circumstance of soil wkh the small variatioit 

 of their crops, I proposed to Mr. Everit the culture of 

 beans: he said that he had tried them, and they would not 

 do ; they run away to straw, and will not pod well. 



Mr. Ferrier, of Hemsby, has known them tried; 

 but they would not do. 



Mr. Syble, of South Walsham, sowed five acres, and 

 they ran away to straw, and yielded very little corn. 



These articles of information were rather discouraging, 

 but having heard that Mr. Christmas, at Billockby, 

 had made some experiments on beans, I called on him ; 

 tinfortunatelv he was fiom home, but I examined his bean 

 crop. Passing to Ludham, the ninth mile-stone is against 

 the field, whicii I note, that others may, if they please, 

 examine the field, it is a large field dibbled one row on 

 every flag : the soil fair Fleg land, but rather stronger than 

 the very pale lands : the crop had been hoed, but not suf- 

 ficiently, for they were rather foul : the convidlion on my 

 mind that the country will do for beans, was compleat : I 

 guess the produce ten coombs an acre. They are rather 

 iow than high. There is a large pit of clay marie in the 

 field. 



Through the Flegs, Walsham, Blowfield, and Happing 

 hundreds, I have been calling out for beans, and surprized 

 at finding only one crop > but at last, at Happsborough, I 

 found that Mr. Wiseman had them for three years, and 

 ■with good success, getting 14 or 15 coombs an acre, 

 though in no better mode of culture than tliat of spraining 

 the seed in every other furrow, and hand-hoeing them 

 twice. He got as fine wheat after them as the best in the 

 country. Inquiring how he came to make such an expe- 

 riment, 1 found he had been in Kent, and seeing the cflect 

 of beans there, induced Inm to try them. 



Mr. BlRCHAM, at Hackford, tried beans three or four 



times, 



