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Article XXXVI, 



On Drillijig Pease. 



[By a Gentleman near Taunton.} 



• Gentlemen, 



PERHAPS the following obfervations on ^ 

 crop of pcafe, may not be wholly unworthy 

 Vdur notice. 



A farmer in my neighbourhood fowed a few 

 peafe in drills, in a common wheat field, it\ the 

 beginning of November laft, for the ufe of his 

 family. We had fome meals of them well grown, 

 when the price was two fhillings and fix-pence per 

 peck ; and when they were fold in Taunton mar- 

 ket for fixteen-pence per peck, the ripeft being 

 gathered from four of thefe drills only, (from 

 -•Which none had been gathered before) produced 

 two pecks of peafe s and as the drills were only 

 eighteen feet in length, and two feet diftant from 

 each other, the whole fpace of ground occupied by 

 the four drills was no more than fixteen fquare 

 yards: from whence it appears, that one acre of 

 ground, ftatute meafure, would have produced 

 upwards of fix hundred pecks of green peafe at 

 the firfl gathering j or, if you calculate by the 



acre 



