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soil if the second growth of clover is turned under. 



Sheep are largely kept in the bean-growing region 

 and are used to consume the bean straw. 



Green beans have a small development near the 

 larger cities of Utica, Syracuse, Eochester and Buf- 

 falo. 



Green peas have a wider spread than dry beans and 

 reach well down the Mohawk Valley and west along 

 the south shore of Lake Erie. They are even more 

 sensitive to the acid soils of the southern tier counties 

 than are beans. However, they are less sensitive to 

 summer rainfall, since they are cut and shelled green. 

 They, therefore, reach east into the region of high 

 rainfall between Syracuse and Utica. This is also 

 an important dairy and stock-raising country, and 

 the green pea vines are ensilaged at the canning fac- 

 tories and sold back to the farmers as feed. Statis- 

 tics on yield are not available, but observation indi- 

 cates it to be 18 to 20 bushels to the acre. Green 

 peas are grown in the rotation similar to beans but 

 have a wider crop association. Peas are an excellent 

 forerunner of fall grains and to precede alfalfa seed- 

 ing. 



Dry peas are grown in the same region as the 

 green peas and occupy about the same acreage as 

 green beans, about 4,000. 



Cabbage production reaches from Syracuse to Buf- 

 falo and from Lake Ontario to the break of the higher 

 hill land in the southern part of the State. It also 

 reaches well into the valleys along the northern mar- 

 gin of the hill country, for example, in Cortland 



