24? PEAS. 3c. 



PEAS. 



PEAS cannot be called a flaple crop of thi» 

 country : neverthelefs they are every year 

 'grown, in greater or fmaller quantities ; ac- 

 cording, perhaps, to the demand of the pre- 

 ceding year, and according to the comparativ'e 

 prices of peas and barley; which, in Norfolk, 

 may be called rival crops ; peas being ufually 

 fown on v;heat-ftubbles, or on light-land lays, 

 which, in the common courfe of culture, are 

 objcdis of the barley-crop. 



The very low price of barley in the winter 

 1 781-2 fickened the farmers of that crop; and, in 

 thefpringof 1 78 2, more peas were fown in Faft- 

 Norfolk, than, perhaps, had ever been known iii 

 any preceding year. This circumflance afford- 

 ed me a favourable opportunity of making 

 remarks on the different modes of cultivation 

 made ufe of in producing this crop; which, as- 

 will appear by the following fketches, has nor, 

 iiere, any fcttJcd mode of culture appropriated 



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