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weekly. A quick start and continuous rapid 

 growth is our motto for all such crops. The same 

 rules and methods will rush turnips or even sweet 

 corn through as a second crop following peas. 



" We pick every morning (the same rows two or 

 three times a week), beginning promptly at 3.30, 

 hiring school children, who go to bed at sunset, for 

 this purpose. A pod thus picked, and kept cold 

 and wet as found at sunrise, will keep its contents 

 perfectly sweet and fresh for two or three days, 

 although marketing immediately should be the 

 rule. It is bad policy to sell wilted pods to one's 

 regular trade. 



" Yield? Oh, 100 to 200 bushels an acre, accord- 

 ing to season, land, and kind. I mean the kind of 

 man. Bushing? Usually it does not pay. We 

 sometimes wire a field, using split cordwood stakes 

 every rod on each row. One wire 15 inches above 

 the vines. When not rushed we mow and dry the 

 vines promptly, then thresh and store. Peas make 

 excellent winter fodder. Otherwise rot them, but 

 never burn. They are a highly valuable mulch 

 for any purpose." 



EDITOR'S EXPERIENCES 



" My father," writes the editor, *' grew the old 

 Champion of England and Blue Imperial garden 

 peas when I was a boy, because they were, in his 

 opinion, of the choicest quality. He would not 

 grow any of the round, smooth-seeded, very early 

 sorts, because of their lack of flavor, nor would he 

 try any of the dwarf wrinkled varieties, because he 

 classed them with the very early kinds. When I 

 had a garden of my own, I wished to avoid the 

 work of brushing the rows, so determined to try 



