■rHE farmer’s MANtJAL. 
99 
Look to your field beans ; pull such as you 
follow with wheat or rye, and remove them to the bor- 
ders of your field, or on to the field adjoining, in small 
heaps, to cure ; or your sowing may be unnecessarily 
delayed, to the damage of your crops. Beans are a 
rich, healthy food for the table, occasionally, in winter; 
are valuable feed for your hogs and sheep, are easily 
raised, and do not exhaust your lands. Even the 
poorest light lands, or the stiffest clay, with a little 
plaster, either in, or upon your bean-hills, will give 
you a profitable crop, which, if pulled, ana cured as 
above, may serve as one of your fallow crops, " y®'* 
use plaster at sowing, as before directed. One of the 
great mysteries of farming is, to suffer nothing t® f®* 
main idle, but to make every article of your farm, both 
animate and inanimate, produce some steady, a^nd 
substantial profit : this a careful farmer may always do. 
Your orchards claim your steady attention through 
this month. Gather your winter apples by hand, from 
your trees, and put them into your spare flour-barrels, 
or any dry barrels, directly from the trees ; head 
them up, and let them remain in the open air, either 
upon the field, or in some other safe place, until the 
weather becomes so severe, as to endanger their 
freezing ; then house in your cellar, such as have 
not been marketted; the saving in this way will 
doubly repay the extra expense of picking by hand, 
and the cost of the barrel. Children can do the 
business of picking, with small baskets, or with bags 
slung over the shoulders, (as the seeds-man slings 
his bag at sowing,) with the assistance of a careful 
h^nd to move their ladders, and fill and head up the 
barrels. 1 have, in some seasons, gathered 3 or 400 
bushels upon my farm in this way, in a few days, and 
always with good success. If you design your apples 
for the Southern or Wcst-lndia market, you may pack 
iheiH in your liarrels with clesn dry sand, at little ex- 
pense, and always with good advantage. I have of- 
ten done this with my winter’s store, and with a saving. 
