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beans, wheat; melilot common ; a tender employed 
with a gun to frighten crows; blue cone wheat will 
here grow a fortnight from August 6, lammas wheat 
earlier; beans set by hand, and some a fair crop four 
feet high, some indifferent and shorter ; chicory plenty, 
patches of clover mown and carted home, and some 
tied to ; soil moist loam ; enclosures near the village. 
Memorandum in the church yard of Hampton, one 
mile from Evesham: the upland burnet grows north of 
the church ; some good crops of set beans in this neigh¬ 
bourhood; turnips sometimes sown on the lighter loams; 
sehufflers used. 
Arklews, drill machine maker, says, two bushels of 
wheat drilled, are as good as three bushels sown broad¬ 
cast upon an acre. 
August 7 : viewed Mr. Murrains farm; beans drilled 
by a machine at 14 inches asunder, two rows at a time; 
wheat drilled by the same machine, at from seven to 
nine inches, and barley about the same distance, three 
rows at a time. 
Pease drilled, but had totally missed, they were al¬ 
ready harvested, and the crop not exceeding six 
bushels per acre, sudden rain prevented hoeing, and 
the weeds grew fast; the land was undergoing a partial 
fallow for wheat; many acres of pease had been cut 
this season for fodder, being thought not worth keeping 
for harvest; the beans in general set or drilled here, 
none but the greatest slovens think of sowing them 
broadcast.—See Beans, Chap. VII. 
Near Evesham, good aftermaths of clover, mowing 
and carting home for horse*; made an excursion to 
Aldington ; Badsey; South, Middle, and North Little- 
tog; 
