JO PEASE. [FEB. 



and weighs better than most other kinds. It does 

 on any land that is tolerably dry. 



3. Black. These are well known ; they bear a 

 wet harvest well, and do on the wettest soils. 



4. Churches oat, yield well ; are white, and 

 come into ear more early than any other oat. 



5. Potatoe oat, lately introduced ; is very heavy, 

 and yields largely. 



PEASE. 



This is also the season for sowing the hardy 

 sorts of pease. The land should have been plough- 

 ed in autumn. A farmer, desirous of keeping his 

 land always in good and clean order, should, in the 

 arrangement of his crops, take great care not to 

 be too free with wheat, barley, and oats, which 

 are all exhausting plants. He should sow beans 

 and pease enough, because they are ameliorating 

 ones, and admit hand-hoeing, to kill the weeds. 

 In those fields, in which the common husbandmen 

 sow oats or barley, after wheat, or after each other, 

 let the good cultivator substitute pease or beans, 

 or some other ameliorating crop, which will pay 

 him better than white corn, under such circum- 

 stances, and nt the same time keep his land clean. 

 Pease may be sown, like black oats, on turf plough- 

 ed up before winter, and now harrowed in. 



I must in general remark, on the culture of 

 pease, that bad fanners are too apt to sow this 

 pulse, when the land will yield nothing else. They 

 have a proverb among them, which signifies, that 

 the season does as much for pease as good hus- 

 bandry ; 





