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Seed per Acre. 



There is a great difference in the comparative size of the peas of 

 different varieties and also a considerable difference in the character 

 of growth of the plants of the various kinds. It is impossible, there- 

 fore, to state any definite amount of seed which will always give the 

 best results with all varieties. While we have obtained excellent re- 

 sults from sowing 2 bushels of the Golden Vine, Chancellor, and 

 Sword peas per acre, which are small seeded varieties, we have found 

 that it is necessary to sow 3J bushels per acre of the large seeded 

 varieties, such as, the Black-eyed Marrowfat, and New Canadian 

 Beauty, if we wish to get equally good returns. 



Methods of Sowing, 



Thirty experiments have been made, comparing the results of 

 sowing peas broadcast and with a grain drill. The land has been in 

 a good state of cultivation in every instance. A spring tooth culti- 

 vator, which slightly ridges the land, has generally been used im- 

 mediately before sowing. The average resultsof the thirty experiments, 

 show that the land on which the seed has been sown with a grain 

 drill, has produced one and one-third bushels per acre more than the 

 land on which the peas have been sown broadcast. 



Growing Peas with Other Crops. 



Mixtures for Green Fodder and for Hat. For .six years in 

 succession, peas, oats, barley, and spring wheat were sown separately 

 and in eleven different combinat'ons, for the purpose of ascertaining 

 whether or not better results could be obtained from growing certain 

 crops together than by growing the same crops separately ; and also 

 of finding out which mixtures would give the best results for green 

 fodder and for hay. It was found that in fully 90 per cent, of the 

 experiments, the grains which were grown in mixtures gave a larger 

 yield of both green fodder and hay per acre than the same grains 

 sown separately. In the average results of six years' experiments 

 with eleven different mixtures, the greatest yield was obtained from 

 a mixture of peas and oats. 



In another experiment conducted for six years, in which nine 

 different proportions of peas and oats were used, it was found that 

 the most satisfactory results were obtained from a mixture of two 

 bushels of oats and one bushel of peas, or « total of three bushels of 

 seed per acre. 



Among all the different varieties of peas and oats which have 

 been grown at the College, a few of the most suitable kinds have 

 been selected and grown in combination in order to find out which 

 varieties give the best results for fodder purposes. In an experiment 

 which has been conducted for five years in growing three different 



