New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. — 357 
PEAS BEST FOR FORAGE. 
Late in the spring there was received from a correspondent 
the following query: Is there no better pea to grow for forage 
than the Canada pea? Replied to that we do not now know of 
any better variety to be grown for that purpose. 
Catalogues were examined for varieties producing haulms of 
good length which would make good green forage and half a 
dozen selected. Of these, two could not be had in season and the 
trial was started with the varieties given in the table. 
The plats available for this trial had produced a small crop of 
beans for several years, and was not well suited for a good vigorous 
growth of vegetation, which reinforced by the drought made the 
yields far smaller than would have been the case under favorable 
climatic and soil conditions. 
One peck, fifteen pounds, of each variety of peas was mixed 
with six pounds of oats and drilled in with the Crown drill. Two 
drill casts of each lot of peas and oats were sown across the first 
eleven G plats. Plat No, 1 was only a gore, and its yield has 
been discarded, as have the paths and the remainder of the 
plats, about one-third, which was sown with a mixture of all the 
seeds left over from sowing these plats. The whole area sown 
was .619 acre, on which one bushel of peas and three pecks of 
oats were sown. This was at the rate of peas 1.6 and oats 1.2 
bushels per acre, or 2.8 bushels of seed per acre in all. This 
forage was harvested August first to fourth, as needed for feeding» 
about 700 pounds per day. 
While these yields are very small, the Canada pea with 
probably an equal weight of seed, gave over eighteen per cent 
greater yleld than the White Marrowfat, and the other two were 
so far behind in yield as practically to fall out of the comparison. 
