6 PEAS AND PEA CULTURE 



experiment station writes the author : " We consider 

 the pea industry important in this state. They are 

 mostly grown for garden seed and hay purposes. 

 Very few are canned. Throughout the coastal plain 

 section of the state much attention is devoted to 

 the growth of garden peas for market purposes. 

 Georgia produces large quantities of green peas, and 

 this constitutes an important truck crop. North 

 Carolina raises a lot of sugar peas for early markets. 

 These are familiarly known as garden peas, pods 

 being picked green and sold. A large dealer at 

 Hickory, N. C, states that 500 to 1,000 acres of such 

 peas are shipped from the vicinity of Elizabeth City 

 and Goldsboro annually. These go to the produce 

 trade and none reach the canning market. North 

 Carolina is also a great state for cowpeas, there 

 probably being about 100,000 bushels going to the 

 North and West every season, and used for fertiliz- 

 ing purposes." Jonathan Havens, of Washington, 

 N. C., writes : " It is a broad assertion, but I believe 

 every kind under the sun grows luxuriantly in this 

 section. I can personally name 3O-odd varieties and 

 with one exception they are good both for stock and 

 human food." 



Wisconsin is a great pea-growing state. There 

 are many factories within its borders and numer- 

 ous varieties of peas are grown for the market. 

 Field peas constitute an important farm crop. 



Michigan produces large quantities of both field 

 and garden peas. Growing for seed is developing 

 into an important industry. New York produces 

 large quantities of peas for canning factories. More 

 will be specified on this subject in the chapter on 

 the Canned Pea Industry. 



