io, THE EARMER’s manual. 
They appear peculiarly calculated for the Northern 
States, and I have no doubt will prove an advantage- 
ous substitute for corn, where frost is apt to injure 
the crop. A small ouantity have been sent for the 
benefit of the Agricultural Society of New-York, by 
J. Barclay of London ; they arrived a few weeks since, 
and have been distributed in various parts of the State. 
“ The merits of those beans consist in their ex- 
traordinary prolific quality, their perfect fullness of 
form and thinness of skin, and in their ripening much 
sooner than the common sorts ; they arc short in 
their straw, and the pods, which grow in bunches, 
commence very near the ground. They will succeed 
on soil not considered stiff enough for the common 
bean, and have produced gencr^ly, without extra 
manure, from 64 to 80 bushels the acre. 
*' At the annual meeting of the Agricultural Society of 
Wiltshire, held at Devizes, July 20th, 1814, Mr. Phil- 
lips produced two stalks, which had on them two 
pods, yielding 490 beans. In the spring of 1813, 
Mr. Phillips planted a bushel and a half of these 
beans, on half an acre of land, (a poor clay,) at one 
ploughing, without manure, and they produced the as- 
tonishing quantity of 52 bushels, Winchester measure. 
“ Several stalks of these beans were produced, and 
the Committee declared them to be infinitely superior, 
in point of productiveness and quality, to any other 
sort ever introduced into the country, and felt it their 
duty to recommend them not only to their own mem- 
bers, but to the public at large, who, they were cer- 
tain, would derive great benefit from their introduc- 
tion.” — J<few' York paper. 
Remarks. 
The value of the white field-bean has been general- 
ly known and approved in our country, both for the 
table and for stock, particularly for sheep and hogs ; 
but the improvement of the Heligoland bean as above, 
