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be well prepared, and the crop sown broadcast, and 

 covered with a harrow or cultivator. The Southern 

 pea has been cultivated in the Southern Atlantic 

 States from time immemorial. Some of the methods 

 pursued in Virginia and the States farther South are 

 as follows, viz : 



First method " The oldest and most extended 

 culture in Virginia, is to plant the peas after and 

 among corn. When the corn is ten or twelve inches 

 high, and has been just plowed and hoed, peas are 

 planted in the drill between the hills of corn. One 

 more plowing is all that is given the corn, and is all 

 the culture required for the peas." 



Second method " The next most extensive mode of 

 pea culture is also as a secondary crop amongst corn, 

 but by sowing broadcast when giving the last plow- 

 ing. This costs but the seed and labor of sowing. 

 The crop all goes for manure, and is seldom ripe 

 enough (in Virginia) for good manure." 



Third mode "And one I think the best and 

 cheapest, to raise a pea crop for manuring, is to sow 

 the seed broadcast on a separate field without corn." 

 Edmund Ruffiri's Essay. 



In sowing peas broadcast to be plowed under, 

 for wheat or other crops, the land should be 

 broken up deeply in winter, and about the 

 first week in June the peas sowed at the rate of 

 one bushel, or five pecks, to the acre, and either 

 harrowed in with a heavy harrow, or plowed in with 

 single plows, according to the state of the land. v 

 P. M. Edmondston, of North Carolina. 



The seeds are believed to have a higher fertilizing 

 value than the vines, if they come to maturity, but 



