Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-28
agricultural.
Beans as Il Field CrOn.

Beans a. a field crop are quite profitable.
They can be grown on very poor, light lands,
but the yield viii be small in com cars. ~
with crops grown on good soil. Some have
tine impression that only poor soils are adapt
ed to beans They thrive best on strong.
rich soil, and under good cultivation they
ma kc a much more remunerative crop THAN
III generally imagined The bean contains
much more nutritivc matter than most other
vegetables. From the analysis by SIR IL
Davy, more than half it's weight consists ot
principles lit for nutriment Ripe beans {,
tain, according to Einh0ti, - per cen ot
nutritive matter Of which 80 is farina, tie
rest chiefly gluten and nucilagc
In England, the horse bean Is largely cal
tiyated in fields for fattening domestic ami
mails, for which they admirably adapt l.
On strong, clay soils, heavy marls and deep
loans of a moist description, the produce i
often from 30 to GO bushels per acre The
variety is not cultivated with to any ex-
tent. White, or garden beans, grown
most profitably in drills, sufficiently wide t.
admit of being worked with cultivator or
horseshoe. The land should be rich and in
good filth A buShel to the ordinary
land, or three quarters of Il bushel on very
rich land, is about the quantity of seed re
,iuisitc. The drills may be made about two
inches deep, and from two to three feet apart,
the seed being two or three inches in drills.
The one-hOrse drill, common at all our agri-
cultural warehouses, is well adapted for put
ting in beans. 1t has a roller which rolls or
presses the earth upon the seed, which is OF
advantage. When the plants are two or three
inches high, they should be cultivated out,
care being taken not to work among them
when they wet
We have seen accounts where cOnsidera-
ble crops of beans have been grown with corn
by planting the seed Of both in the hill at the
same time. The beans in this way get good
start, and mature before the corn attains suiH
cient hight to affect them injuriously by too
much shade. The double cropping of land
in this way, however, is of doubtful utility.
Generally special piece of ground to eaet.
crop will be found most profitable.
One Of the objections urged against more
general culture of beans, is the labor of har-
vesting. Beans are usually pulled, and this
should be done when the latest pods are fall
grown, but not dry. This back-aching
operation of pulling, is now obyiated by a
mandy little machine, called the bean har
vester. Ii is worked by a horse. and pulls
the plants, delivering them III Il row with
the roots all one way in good order Ii the
weather is dry they need not be moved until
time to draw them in, but If the weather l.
damp they should be stacked loosely around
poles and covered with straw to shed rain.
1t will be better toavOid stacking if possible
since in moving them there is apt 10 be loss
from Smelling. The weather. however, II
often imperative, and if bad Will necessitate
stacking. When this happens to be the
ease, a good way OF making the stack will
he u set two stakes in the ground, about five
inches apart, and fill up with two layers o!
beans, that the butts, or roots will be
between the stakes in the center, then draw
the stakes together at the tops and tie. cap
ping with straw Utica Herald.