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a considerable supply of peas for the liogs which 

 follow. 



Such feeding leaves all the manure on the 

 ground and spreads it at the same time. With 

 the nitrogen gathering of the peas and the ma- 

 nure of the animals, soils used in this manner 

 are continually enriched. Sheep will do well 

 on peas even where some snow covers them. 

 When the snow is too deep a plow can be run 

 through, breaking furrows and lifting the peas 

 so that the sheep can get to them. 



PULLING OB If it is desired to put the peas in stack, either 



THE CROP f r the saving of seed or to feed as pea hay, or 

 to be threshed for grain, they may be pulled with 

 the old-fashioned dump rake, or sometimes with 

 an ordinary hay rake. If peas are mowed, a 

 guard attachment should be put on the mowing 

 machine which will lift the vines. A man should 

 follow with a fork and throw the vines in 

 bunches or wind-rows, away from the machine, 

 so that the horses will not tramp over them on 

 the second round. 



The best method of hauling peas to the stack 

 is by the use of sleds and slings. If threshed for 

 seed, a special threshing machine must be used 

 or they must be flailed or tramped out. The or- 

 dinary cylinder machine will not only split the 

 peas, but make pea meal of them in our dry cli- 

 mate where the grain gets brittle. 



