MARCH. 



length of haulm, has discouraged many farmers 

 from sowing so large a breadth 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 boilersy 

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

 pease usually sell for 6d. or 1 s. per quarter more 

 than beans. For feeding swine, the pa 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 practice 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 choose to be at the expence o 

 buying them, than suffer their hogs to eat beans. 

 'Nay, so far do some of them carry their prejudice 

 in this particular, as to reject, the grey pease for 

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



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