rHE farmer’s MANUAL. '81 
surpasses any thing of the kind heretofore known, 
and will give an additional value to our tillage, and 
to our farms, in facilitating the means of increasing 
our stock of pork, and thus increasing our stock of 
the very best manure. — Beans have generally been 
admitted as a good fallow crop, in keeping the ground 
clean, without exhausting the soil ; but it has been a 
serious objection to beans as a fallow crop, that they 
ripen too late, and thus delay the sowing of the winter 
grains beyond the proper seed-time, to the damage of 
the crop. — This objection, when true, is a serious 
one ; but this it is now found may be obviated by 
cutting oft’ the top of the bean-vines, as soon as the 
first blossoms begin to drop, but not before, as they 
will sprout again. 
For the truth of this remark, 1 am indebted to Sir 
John Sinclair, who states, that the practice was intro- 
duced into field husbandry by John Lowlher, Esep, 
M. P. through his Bailiff, or overseer, George Lane, 
who had been a Gardener, and that in 1804, more than 
200 acres had been tested by this experiment, at an ex- 
pense of about 3 shillings per acre, and that as soon as 
the tops were cut off, the pods began to swell, and in- 
crease in their size, and that the period of ripening 
was generally accelerated at least a fortnight. 
The fact above stated is of the highest importance, 
because it goes to secure the bean crop amongst the 
fallow crops, with a handsome profit on its culture, 
without injury to the soil, or the alter crop. To be 
able to select the soil which is best ailapted to the 
crop you wish to cultivate, and to prepare this soil by 
manure and tillage to the best advantage, and thus, 
by a regular process, to bring your crop to it.s highest 
productive state of perfection, is truly a very import- 
ant part of good farming , but it is onl) a jiart. To 
combine the cultivation of crop., with a regular suc- 
cession of other crops. ^ : t each in succession 
shall yield the gre,;' • : sibh i roduct, with the 
least possible expense, and yet raise the productive 
