70 Cultivation of Arable Land. -Peas. Modes of reaping of. 



But for the later crops that ftand to ripen, it is fuppofed by fome to be from 

 three and a half to four quarters the acre ; others however imagine the average of 

 any two crops together not more than about twelve bufhels.* And that on the 

 whole, if the value of the produce be merely attended to, it maybe confidered as 

 a lefs profitable crop than moft others. As a means of ameliorating and improv 

 ing the foil, at the fame time it is, however, to beefteemed as of great value. 



The greateft danger to the early pea crops is to be apprehended when the weather 

 during the more early fpring months is hot and funny in the day-time, attended 

 with fharp frofts in the nights, as in this way great mifchief is often done, the crops 

 becoming attacked with the mildew, and not ripening in a proper manner. 



While the peas are proceeding in their growth, and ftill more particularly at the 

 periods when they come into blofTom and begin to fet their pods, it is of great 

 importance to have rather moift weather, as by that means the vegetation of the 

 crop is promoted in a more perfect manner, and there is a greater chance of the 

 peas being well podded. The chief figns of the healthy and vigorous vegetation of 

 pea crops are thofe of their leaves pofTeflmg a fine bloom of a bluifh caft, and hav 

 ing the outermoft large leaves of the bloflbm extending backwards. f 



In the late or general pea crops, after they are reaped or rather cut up by means 

 of a hook, it is the ufual practice to put them up into fmall heaps, termed wads, 

 which are formed by fetting fmall parcels againft each other, in order that they 



remarkable for more than a common crop, are thus Hated byMr. Middlcton in his Survey of the Agri 

 culture of Mlddlefex. 



Number, 40 facks, of four bufhels each, of pods fent to market, and fold from 



6s. to 13s. average 7s, Gd, each - -.1500 



Haulm, Hacked, and given to draught horfes, one ton per acre, worth two- 

 thirds as much as hay, but fay only - - 300 



Produce -, .18 



EXPENCES. Ploughing once from clover ley .0 10 



Seed, four bufhels, at 12s. 280 



Drilling, covering, &c. - 070 



Hoeing twice - - - 0100 



Podding at ISd. per fack, on 40 300 



Marketing, diftance ten miles, land carriage - 150 



800 



Remains - - - -.1000 



* D onaldfon s Moitern Agriculture. * Englifh Encyclopedia, Art. Husbandry. 



