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Nine bushels and twelve quarts of beans sold,. . $16 94 
Five “ large potatoes, . . * . . . 2 50 
Nine <£ small,.2 25 
Grass,.. . . 1 00 
Stalks,. 0 75 
In all,.$23 44 
Leaving a pecuniary profit, as I have elsewhere said, of $8 711. 
This is the result of my experience in raising beans. 
Plant the common small white bush bean about the 
first of June, in rows three feet by eighteen inches 
apart, being careful to select fresh round and unmixed 
seed. First look out for worms, and supply vacancies 
by planting anew. Then look out for woodchucks, if 
it is an exposed place, for they will nibble off the 
earliest tender leaves almost clean as they go; and again, 
when the young tendrils make their appearance, they 
have notice of it, and will shear them off with both 
buds and young pods, sitting erect like a squirrel. 
But above all harvest as early as possible, if you would 
escape frosts and have a fair and salable crop; you 
may save much loss by this means. 
This further experience also I gained. I said to 
myself, I will not plant beans and corn with so much 
industry another summer, but such seeds, if the seed is 
not lost, as sincerity, truth, simplicity, faith, innocence, 
and the like, and see if they will not grow in this soil, 
even with less toil and manurance, and sustain me, for 
surely it has not been exhausted for these crops. Alas! 
I said this to myself; but now another summer is gone, 
and another, and another, and I am obliged to say to 
you, Reader, that the seeds which I planted, if indeed 
they icere the seeds of those virtues, were wormeaten or 
had lost their vitality, and so did not come up. Com¬ 
monly men will only be brave as their fathers were 
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