il^ AGRICULTURAL ESSA^. 



purpose for making cakes, which when warm are esteemed as 

 a good substitute for- more expensive kinds of bread, and are e- 

 ven used by many out of choice. The raising of buckwheat 

 for the valuable purpose of preparing the soil for a crop of 

 wheat, should be kept in view.^ 



Some farmers have practiced sowing rye invariably after 

 buckwheat; and some have sown the rye in July with their 

 buckwheat, which, it is said, keeps the rye down so as to pre- 

 vent its bemg too forward when the buckwheat comes off. This 

 IS a labor savmg culture, and good crops of rye have been rais- 

 ed m this way ; but it is believed to be better husbandry to 

 plough up the ground after the buckwheat comes off. 



It is useful in driving out the azeyed daisy, butter cup, crow 

 toot, Canada thistle, and other noxious weeds, as well as the 

 ijuack grass, or couch gr^s. 



P.EA. 



Peas, of all kinds, for family use, may be sown in the field 

 mthe broad cast way, and the farmer, who has land plentv 

 may raise them cheaper, and with much less trouble It is 

 said that the German farmers attend much to the culture of 

 this pea. An average product is about eighteen bushels to 

 the acre. They preserve the liuum to feed their cattle, which 

 may answer as a substitute for other food when it is scarce 

 tt'^^^:,^^^^'^^^ of ^^® P®^ «ho"W be ^ore attended to in the 

 United States, when it is considered, tY.at the crop, though of 

 less value than many others, does not mbch exhai-st the soil 

 and does no injury to the crop of wheat, which may succeed it! 

 By such culture, the farmer may gain an extra crop from the 

 land which he intends for sowing to wheat the next fall, f 



A bug is often found which, has eat into ti^ heart of 

 the pea ; although it does not prevent the growth of them 

 they will injure the next crop, if they are not destroyed. One* 

 method to kill them is to let the peas be thrown into hot wa- 

 tefr, and after remaining there a few seconds, take them out 



* See essay on^the culture of wheat, 

 t Ses Essay on wheat. 



