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bandry ; and they from thence take care, that good 

 crops shall be owing to season alone. Hence arises 

 the general idea of pease being the most uncertain 

 crop of all others. This is owing to their being 

 scarcely ever sown on land that is in good order. 

 Let the good husbandman lay it down as a maxim, 

 that he should sow no crop on land that is not in 

 good order ; not merely in respect of fine tilth at 

 the time of sowing, but also of the soil's being in 

 good heart, and clear of weeds. I would not, 

 however, here be understood to rank all these crops 

 together ; because beans and pease will admit of 

 cleaning while they grow. On that account, if a 

 farmer comes to a field which his predecessor has 

 filled with weeds, a horse-hoed crop of beans will 

 be expedient, when a barley crop would be utterly 

 improper, and, after land has yielded one crop of 

 barley, certainly another should not be sown, but 

 one of pulse substituted. If these ideas are well 

 executed, the pease and beans, in every course, will 

 find the land in heart enough for barley, the soil 

 will always be clean, and the crop good. Pease, 

 when managed in a spirited manner, will not have 

 the reputation of being so very uncertain a crop, 

 which character has in some measure been owing 

 to ill conduct. 



PEASE OX LAYERS. 



The white boiling pea, of many sorts and under 

 various names, is more tender than the greys, and 

 various kinds of hog pease; but I have many times 

 put them into the ground in February, and though 



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