6S Cultivation cf Arable Ztwrf. - Peas Quantity of Seed. 



in the autumn, with the defign of pulling the pods green, ic may be in the quantity 

 of three bufhels and a half or four bufhels to the acre ; a larger proportion than in 

 other cafes being generally allowed. The peas in thofe cafes fhould be put in in 

 rows, at the diftance of about three feet from each other, in order that proper culti 

 vation may be applied afterwards. This mode of practice is common about Dartford 

 in Kent, where the green pea fyftem of hufbandry is carried on extenfively and 

 with much profit to the farmer. But for the general fowing, when the land is in 

 tolerable condition, from three to three bufhels and a half is the common allowance, 

 the earlier fowings requiring rather the mod feed. 



Mr. Young mentions two bufhels and an half as the ufual quantity to the acre in 

 planting eveiy flag. And where they are drilled at larger diftances fix or feven 

 pecks may befufficient. Some have only employed one bufnel, but that hefuppofes 

 too fmall. In our experience however, there has always appeared an advantage in 

 having thefe crops rather thickly fown. 



If the view of the cultivator in the growth of pea crops be chiefly that of 

 cleaning and ameliorating the land for the reception of other forts of crops, as 

 thofe of grain, turnips, &c.orthe producing much draw, a larger quantity of feed 

 may be ufeful, as by that means the furface of the foil may be more perfectly 

 covered, and a more clofe and ftagnated ftate of the air produced upon it in 

 confequence; at the fame time that the plants are drawn up to a greater length 

 of ftem or flraw, by which the land will be greatly mellowed and enriched, and 

 the fmall weeds fmothered and deftroyed at the time that a larger proportion of 

 fodder is produced. But in cafes where the principal object is that of the crop 

 of corn that is to follow, the proportion of feed may be lefs, as in that way 

 there will be a more free circulation of air, and a more perfect admiflion of 

 light and heat from the fun, for the growth and maturation of the pea crop, 

 and at the fame time lefs exhauflion of the foil. It is ufual in thefe cafes, in 

 many diftricts, to put the feed into the ground in the broadcaft method; but the 

 drill or row fyftem is conftantly to be preferred, as being more regular, (living con- 

 iiderably in the proportion of feed, and admitting of cultivation afterwards with 

 .more cafe and advantage. In this laft method two bufhels, or two bufhels and 

 a half, may often be a fufficient allowance of feed. Different implements have 

 been contrived for this ufe, but the moft convenient is probably a fmall light 

 fort of wheel-plough, to the body of which a fort of feed-box is attached, 

 through the bottom of which the axis of a light wheel paffes, by which the 

 fow;ngis regulated, and which is pulled up and prevented from letting the peas 

 be depofited at the ends of the ridges, or other places, as in turning by a firing 



