This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 Excerpt: ...the distance of sour or five inches. When the crop is in full bloom, the greater part of the male plants are drawn out by hand, and given profitably to young pigs; by which operation, the female plants have more room to grow, and perfect their seed. The crop is pulled up when ripe, and thrashed in a field on a cloth, or carried to the barn. The produce is from two to five quarters per acre. Kidney Beans are much cultivated about the town of Sandwich, and in the Isle of Thanet, for supplying the London seedsmen. The tillage for the crop is the fame as for a crop of beans or pease; and the ma nure is rotten dung ploughed in. There isa great variety of sorts; those chiefly cultivated are, the black speckle, the Canterbury dwarfs, the white dwarfs, the red speckle, the scarlet, and the white Dutch runners. From five to ten gallons per acre, is the quantity of feed to drop in an acre of land, in proportion to the size H or of the sort; the smaller the bean, the less quantity. The time of planting this crop is from the eighth to the twentieth of May; if earlier, it is in danger of being destroyed by a frosty morning. It is hoed and kept perfectly clean from weeds, and harvested, by being pulled up by the roots as the plants become ripe, in autumn. The early forts are fit by the end of-August, and the late ones are frequently not ripe till October; those which ripen late, and are in danger of being; ""hurt by wet weather, are frequently tied up in small bunches, and hung upon poles to ripen, and, when thoroughly dry, are thrashed and sent to market. The produce is from ten to twenty bushels per acre. V-j; Cresses and White Mustard are sometimes sown for the-London seedsmen. The method of tillage is to harrow the ploughed land, and strike furrows about el... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге General view of the agriculture of the county of Kent; with observations on the means of its improvement (Great Britain. Board of Agriculture)