314 B£AKS. 



times, and left them off because he could not get wheat 

 after them ; but did not hoe : could not. I advised fresh 

 trials j;i the horse-hoeing system. 



Mr. Styleman, at So ^ttisham, has had two crops of 

 beans on a v rt of inars^^Ii, stiff and strong soil. Hjs ma- 

 nage;r.ent ol^ the second crop, wluch 1 viewed, was to 

 jplough a wheat stubble ii^ amu nn, leave it well water- 

 furrowed, and in tlie spring t ) dibble in the seed. 



Mr. PRitsT,of Bestborj>e, has drilled beans with Cook's 

 mac'.lne at i3 inches; five coombs of seed on 17 acres; 

 the crop a fair one: the field yielded dibbled barley the 

 year before, on a laver. The beans were once horse- 

 hoed, once hand hoed, and once weeded ; designs to scuf- 

 fle the stubble for wheat. 



At Wigenh all, St. Mary's, in Marshland, they plough 

 in the wheat sti.bi les in autumn, and stirring in the spring, 

 sov/ cvcvv third or fourth furrow with two bushels of 

 horse beans an acre ; iiand-hoe the rows once, and plough 

 sometimes between them. Last year (1801) they got ten 

 coombs an acre, but tiie aver ge not above five or six. 

 They burn the straw in ovens, t\.c. For the following 

 wheat tliey plough once, and lianovv in the seed; and if 

 the weaiher is goot!, twice: tiiis they reckon best on ac- 

 count of ihe w/iiie sncii/, a slug which abounds on bean 

 stubbies: jr eats the young plar.t of wheat tlie moment the 

 seed shoots, and sometimes destroys the ciop ; steeping in 

 arsenic no prevention — tliey eat the seed iitclf also, by some 

 accounts, but this is doubtful. Their best wheats follow 

 beans: the fallowed crops never average five coombs, but 

 those on bean stubbles do. Such is Mr. Dennis's ac- 

 count. 



Mr. CoF, of I.lington, has generally one-sixth of his 

 arable in beans; in autumn he ploughs the wheat stubble, 

 and again at Candlemas, and hairows in two bushels and a 



half 



