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thing given to the cows when they are fed 

 on turnips. 



During this summer, I raised some gar- 

 den peas in the fields, in the manner de- 

 scribed in my former work, by the plough 

 and harrows. I intended to have sown 

 three acres of garden peas : but I could get 

 only three quarts of seed ; which I sowed 

 after the rate of three bushels to the acre : 

 and we got, when green, to eat twenty-one 

 times for seven in family, and had two pecks 

 of seed peas, all from those three quarts. 

 They were not rpdded ; but, the year 

 before, I set three quarts in the garden, and 

 managed them in the gardeners' style, and 

 only got five times for seven people, and one 

 quart of seed peas from them : and it has 

 strengthened my opinion, that peas thrive 

 better not rodded, where they can get air, 

 and they will produce more, and especially 

 in hot dry soils. The year before, there was 

 compost applied in the rows, equally as 

 much if not more. There was plaster of 

 Paris applied both years ; but I found no 



