THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



the peas and oats on the field long enough to 

 cure for hay, so accepted an offer made by a 

 man who had recently bought the large stock 

 farm of the neighborhood, and who had silos, 

 but no crops. He was to cut the remaining 

 nine acres, five inches above the ground, and 

 pay us $40. 



This may not seem a very thrifty proceed- 

 ing, but we had other soiling crops ready to 

 use, and the peas had answered the purpose 

 for which they had been planted namely, to 

 gather nitrogen from the air and transplant it 

 to the soil. It has been estimated that a good 

 crop of Canadian field peas supplies one ton 

 of nitrogen per acre. Commercial nitrogen 

 costs $36 per ton. Therefore we did not 

 grudge the stock gentleman his bargain, even 

 though he did get 80 tons of green forage. 



When the field was clear it was plowed to 

 turn in the remaining vines and stubble, har- 

 rowed, and sown, on August 10th, with Hen- 

 derson's Permanent Grass Mixture. The mix- 

 ture cost $2.50 a bushel, and it takes two 



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