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The size of the seed vary from 1,814 to the pound in the case of 

 the Large Black Eve to 3,856 in case of the Iron, there being more 

 than twice as many peas in a ponnd or bushel of Iron than the Large 

 Black Eye. This factor is not usually considered in detenniiiing the 

 number of peas to plant to the acre, but should be, not so many peas 

 of the small and medium sizes being necessary as of the large ones 

 for the same area. 



Hay. — The yield of hay in pounds per acre of the several varieties 

 included in the test for four years and over vary from 3,872 pounds 

 to 2, -100 pounds, the rank in order of productiveness for hay being 

 as follows: 



Iron, 



Clay, 



Brown Coffee, 



Whii)pooi'will, 



Red Crowder, . 



Red Ripper, 



Yellow Sugar Crowder, 



Small Black, 



Whittle, 



Southdown. 



New Era, 



Small Lady, 



Powell's Early Prolific, 



Small Black Eye, 



Large Black Eye, 



Mealer's Clay, 



Sixty-day, 



]\richigan Favorite. 



