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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 produce a 

 great abundance of haulm, which takes up a 

 large space in the barn, and fo/ 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/' Bannister. 



DRILLED PEASE. 



Tliis pulse, in many districts, is drilled, which is 

 a very good method. The great use of drilling 

 pease is, the rendering it so much easier to hand- 

 hoe them. Good farmers, whatever their soil, are 

 always desirous of getting the hand-hoe into as many 

 crops as possible, and few pay better for it than 

 pease; but, when promiscuously sown, it is difficult 

 and expensive to perform that work well ; whereas, 

 if they are drilled in equally- distant rows, one foot 

 asunder, the hoeing is regular work: it will be ex- 

 ecuted much easier, better, and cheaper, and the 

 crop be consequently superior : for that operation, 

 given while the plants are quite young, chesks the 

 weeds so much, at the same time that the crop is 

 forwarded, that the tendrils join the sooner, and 

 are much the stronger for it. Consequently, a 

 thick, luxuriant crop is gained in a much greater 

 degree. Another advantage in this method is, the 



saving 



