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Pease should he sown after corn. They air. 

 come in best after wheat, barley, or oats," generally 

 with good husbandry after layers. I can hardly 

 suppose a situation, where this is not the right ma- 

 nagement : they come very properly into such 

 courses as these: 1. Turnips; 2. Bailey; 3. 

 Clover; 4. Pease; 5. Wheat: or, ]. Cabbages ; 

 2. Oats; 3. Clover; 4. Pease; 5. Wheat. 

 When wheat succeeds clover, you may throw in a 

 crop of pease after it, if it suits you better than 

 to come again to turnips, cabbages, or beans, the 

 first of the course. 



" If wet weather happens whilst the pease lie in 

 wads, it occasions a considerable loss, many of 

 them being shed in the field, and of those that re- 

 main a great part will be so considerably injured, as 

 to render the sample of little value. This inability 

 .in pease to resist a wet harvest, together with the 

 great uncertainty throughout their growth, and the 

 frequent inadequate return in proportion to the 

 length of haulm, has discouraged many farmers 

 from sowing so large a season of this pulse as of 

 other grain ; though on light lands which are in 

 tolerable heart, the profit, in a good year, is far 

 from inconsiderable. The straw (as hath been 

 mentioned before,) is a very wholesome food for 

 cattle of every kind ; and there is generally a con- 

 siderable demand for pease of every denomination 

 in the market, the uses to which they may be ap- 

 plied being so many and so various. The boilers, 

 or yellow pease, always go oft briskly ; and the hog- 

 pease 



