REPORT OF MR. 8. A. BEDFORD 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Average Kesults of a Five Years' Test of Twelve Varieties of Pease. 



411 



Mixed Pease and Oats. 



The labour of harvesting pease in the usual way, added to the risk of loss from 

 severe wind storms, has always proved a serious obstacle to their cultivation in this 

 province. 



A small quantity of oats, mixed with the pease at seeding, usually keeps the com- 

 bined crop from lodging, and permits of a large proportion of the crop being secured 

 with a binder, and stooked and threshed in the usual manner. The small quantity of 

 pease missed by the binder can be gathered by the store hogs, usually plentiful at this 

 season of the year. 



The size of plots in this test was one-twentieth acre, and the soil was a sandy 

 loam, summer-fallowed. 



Quantity 



of Peas sown 



per Acre. 



2 bushel . 



Quantity 



of Oats sown 



per Acre. 



1 peck. 



2 „ . 



Date Date 



of of 



Sowing. Ripening. 



May 



6.. 

 6.. 



Aug. 27. 

 m 27. 



Weight 



per 

 Bushel. 



Lbs. 



43 



38 



Thick and Thin Sowing of Pease. 



It is usually difficult to get a close stand of pease in this country. For this reason, 

 it was expected that a somewhat heavier sowing than usually practised in the East 

 would give the best results, but the result of this year's test does not appear to confirm 

 this opinion. 



The size of the plots for this test was one-twentieth acre, the soil was a- sandy 

 loam, summer-fallowed, and all were sown on May 8. 



