THE farmer’s manual. 
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fields will answer for this pea, you may always culti- 
vate it with success in the regular succession of your 
crops, and with a good profit, because the pea does 
not exhaust your soil. 
Peas, when sown early in April, with oats, or in May, 
with beans, say one bushel of each to the acre, come 
forward early, and give a handsome profit, to bring 
forward your hogs in summer, and thus save your 
corn in autumn for the profits of a spring market. 
This crop may be mown, and threshed in the com- 
mon mode, and the straw will answer both for winter 
feed for young stock, and litter for your horses and 
cattle, or perhaps to a better profit, as litter for your 
hogs in summer; such litter will enable you to cart 
in an extra quantity of rich earth into your hogs’- 
pen, and thus increase the quantity of this bes^of ma- 
nure. 
Sow flax and oats as early in this month as possi- 
ble, seed with 2 to 3 bushels of seed upon a strong 
soil. Begin to plant potatoes. 
Beans. 
Plough in May, or early in June, such lands as you 
design to plant with beans ; your poor sand, or sandy, 
or gravelly loams will answer ; provided you wet your 
beans, and roll them in plaster, at planting. Set your 
rows two and a half feet distance, and your hills from 
one and a half to two feet distance in the rows, and 
seed with 5 beans in a hill; the crop will always pay 
you well, both as a tillage, and a fallow crop for 
wheat, or rye, provided your bean lands can bear those 
crops, with the aid of plaster, or such other dress- 
ings, by the stronger manures, as you can give them. 
Under this head 1 will insert an extract from the New- 
York Daily Advertiser upon the Heligoland Bean. 
A friend of mine handed me the following inter- 
esting account of the Heligoland bean. I am induced 
to make it public for the benefit of those who have 
possessed themselves of some of this valuable article. 
