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in separate enclosure from corn, where stock can be turned 

 upon whenever desired. 



Peas are often sowed upon the stubble after small grain is 

 harvested. Flush up the ground, and sow either broadcast 

 or drill in furrow opened with shovel plow, covering with 

 scooter furrow on each side. Block off or run over lightly 

 with harrow and board attached. Again, they are drilled 

 hi every fourth furrow, when turning over the stubble, the 

 succeeding furrow covering the peas. When either of these 

 last modes of planting is adopted, the peas should receive 

 one good plowing out when they are from four to six inches 

 high. 



When planted in corn (the corn should have been drilled 

 in rows five feet apart), they should be step- dropped in a 

 furrow equally distant from each corn row, and covered 

 with scooter, with harrow or with block. This should be 

 last of May or in the first ten days of June. The only work 

 they receive when planted in corn, is a shovel or sweep 

 furrow run around them when the corn is being " laid by, n 

 unless there is much grass, when it becomes necessary to 

 give them a light hoeing. The crop might be said to be 

 made almost without work when planted with corn ; in fact 

 it is often so made by those planters who sow peas broad- 

 cast in their corn, and cover them with the last plowing 

 given the corn. 



There is much diversity of opinion as to the proper treat- 

 ment of the vines in curing them for winter hay. And as 

 much has been written upon the subject, the writer feels 

 some diffidence in giving his own views. Suffice it to say, 

 the great end to be attained is to cure the vines to the ex- 

 tent only of getting rid of a part of the succulent moisture 

 in the vine, without burning up the leaves. When exposed 

 to too much heat, the leaves fall very readily from the stems, 

 and are lost. 



When put up too green and too compactly, they heat, and 

 when fermentation of the juices in the vines and unripe 



