lands in autumn. 
BHAN-GOOSE. 
phosphates of potash and soda, 9°35 of phosphate 
of lime, 19°11 of phosphate of magnesia, 1:84 of 
BEARING-REIN. 
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greedily such of the pulse as is left on the sur- 
face; and J am inclined to think that their tri- 
sulphate of potash and chloride of sodium, and | vial name has been acquired from their apparent 
1:11 of silicate of potash. 
The bean itself, ac- | predilection for beans as food, rather than from 
cording to Sir Humphrey Davy, on the authority | the shape and aspect of the nail of the upper 
of Hinhoff, in every 3,840 parts, contains 1,312 ; mandible, to which it has been generaily attri- 
parts of starch, 31 of albumen, and 1,204 of other 
nutritive matters, such as gum, starch, and fibrin. 
Every 100 pounds of beans, according to Profes- 
sor Johnston, contain 40 pounds of starchy sub- 
stances, and 28 pounds of albuminous matter; 
and from two to three pounds of beans, accord- 
ing to the same authority, contain as much nour- 
ishment for cattle as 10 pounds of hay, 5 of oats, 
60 of turnips, 35 of carrots, 28 of potatoes, 55 of 
oat straw, or 52 of wheat straw.—Diekson’s Agri- 
culture of the Ancients—Young’s Farmer's Ka’en- 
dar.—Marshall’s Rural Economy of the Southern 
Counties —Mill’s Husbandry.— Lawson's Agricul- 
turist’s Manual.—Sir John Sinclar’s General Re- 
port of Scotland.—Hunter’s Georgical Essays.— 
Brown on Rural Affairs— Agricultural Report of 
Berwickshire. — Loudon’s Hortus Britannicus.— 
Catalogue of the Highland Society's Museum.— 
Magazine of Domestic Economy. — Treatise on 
British Husbandry.—Sproule’s Treatise. on Agri- 
culiure.—Low’s Elements of Agriculture—Doyle’s 
Practical Husbandry. — Millers Dictionary. — 
Davy’s Agricultural Chemistry.—Liebig’s Chemis- 
try of Agriculture. — Farmers Monthly Miscel- 
lany—Quarterly Journal of Agriculture —Jour- 
nal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
BEAN (KIDNEY). See Krpnery-Buan. 
BEAN-DOLPHIN, or Bran-Fry. See Aputs. 
BEAN-GOOSH, — called by some zoologists 
Anser ferus, and by others Anser segetum. A spe- 
cies of wild goose, known to multitudes of Bri- 
tish farmers for its depredations upon young crops 
of winter wheat. It is liable to be confounded 
by a careless observer, with the greylag, the ori- 
gin of our domestic goose. But its body is of 
smaller size than that of the greylag; its bill is 
shorter and more compressed; its wings extend 
beyond the tail; and its mandibles are partly 
black, while those of the greylag are of an orange 
red. It inhabits the arctic regions during sum- 
mer, and migrates southward to the British is- 
“Tn Britain,” says Mr. Selby, 
“it is well known as a regular winter visitant, 
arriving in large bodies, from its northern sum- 
mer haunts, during September or the beginning 
of October, and seldom taking its final depar- 
ture before the end of April or the beginning 
of May. The various flocks, during their resi- 
dence in this country, have each their particular 
haunts or feeding districts, to which, on each 
ensuing season, they invariably return. They 
feed much upon the tender wheat, sometimes 
injuring the fields to a great extent; and they 
frequent also the stubbles, particularly such as 
are laid down with clover and other grasses. In 
the early part of spring, they often alight upon 
| the newly sown bean and pea fields, picking up 
buted. 
In bulk, the bean-goose is generally 
rather less than the greylag, or true wild-goose : 
and it is accordingly sometimes called provin- 
cially the small grey goose; but it not unfre- 
quently equals the other in size and weight. The 
head and upper part of the neck incline to brown 
with a greyish tinge, and the feathers of the lat- 
ter hue are so disposed as almost to produce a 
furrowed appearance. The lower parts of the 
body are ash-grey, with transverse darker shades; 
and the back and scapulars are brown with a 
grey tinge, the feathers being edged with white.” 
BHAN-TREFOIL. See Anacynis. 
BEAR, or Brrr. See Baruey. 
BEARBERRY. See Arsutvs. 
BEARBIND. See Binpwesp. 
BEARD. The awns ofa plant; also the hairs 
on the underlip of a horse. 
BEARDED-OATGRASS. See Avmna. 
BEARDGRASS, — botanically Polypogon. A 
genus of grasses, of the agrostis tribe. ‘Two spe- 
cies are indigenous in Great Britain; three spe- 
cies have been introduced from Tartary, North 
America, and the south of Europe; and nine or 
ten other species are known to botanists. All 
the five kinds existing in Britain are annuals, 
and of very little interest to the farmer; yet the 
two indigenous kinds have a pretty appearance, 
and are somewhat rare. The Montpelier species, 
Polypogon Monspeliensis, grows by road-sides; | 
and the shore species, Polypogon littoralis—for- 
merly called Agrosizs littoralis—grows by the sea- | 
side. 
BHARING-REIN. The rein which occasions 
the bit to press most effectually on the jaw of 
the horse, and which compels the animal to carry 
his head high, corrects his tendency to stumble, 
and holds him in check when he is disposed to 
run away. It is useful on level ground, indis- 
pensable in fastwork, and generally necessary to 
a horse who has become accustomed to it; yet it 
prevents him from throwing his whole weight 
into the collar when ascending an acclivity, 
and is often, through useless and cruel inconsi- 
deration, made so tight as to excoriate the angles 
of his lips, and painfully cramp the muscles of 
his head. Yet, says a judicious writer in the 
New Sporting Magazine, “‘ The charge against it 
of cruelty at once falls to the ground, because to 
make a team work together in fastwork, every 
horse’s head must be as much restrained by the 
coupling rein as it would be and is by the bear- 
ing rein. Its excellence consists in keeping 
horses’ mouths fresh, in enabling a eoachman to 
indulge a horse with liberty of rein, without let- 
ting him be all abroad, which he would be with 
his head quite loose, and of additional safety to 
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