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DRILLED PEASE. 



[MARCH. 



pease usually sell for 6d. or Is. per quarter more 

 than beans. For feeding swine the pea is much 

 better adapted than the bean, it having been de- 

 monstrated by experience, that hogs do fat more 

 kindly when fed with this grain than on beans ; 

 and, what is not easy to be accounted for, the 

 flesh of swine which have been fed on pease, it is 

 said, will swell in boiling, and be well tasted ; 

 whilst the flesh of the bean-fed hog will shrink in 

 the pot, the fat will boil out, and the meat be less 

 delicate in flavour. It has, therefore, now become 

 a pradice with those farmers who are curious in 

 their pork, to feed their hogs on pease and barley- 

 meal, and if they have no pease of their own 

 growth, they rather chuse to be at the expence of 

 buying them, than suffer their hogs to cat beans. 

 Nay, so far do some of them carry their prejudice 

 in this particular, as to rejecl the grey pease for 

 this use, as bearing too near an affinity to the bean, 

 and therefore reserve their growths of white pease 

 solely for hog fatting. 



" Pease, if the ground is kindly for their 

 growth, and the summer moist, do generally pro- 

 duce a great abundance of haulm, which takes up 

 a large space in the barn, and for this reason the 

 mow ought always to be trodden with hogs or 

 horses, which will close down the haulm into one 

 sixth part of the compass it would otherwise have 

 occupied/' Banui filer. 



DRILLED PEASE. 



This pulse in many districts is drilled, which is 



a very 



