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a farm crop of much importance. It is also grown 
largely for canning purposes. 
In seed-peas the transactions in the trade lead, in bulk 
and monetary consequence, every other seed in the 
vegetable line; aggregately, more than 750 carloads of 
seed-peas of garden varieties are handled annually at 
present by the American trade. Formerly this pea 
seed was all imported from Europe, but now nearly all 
of it is produced within our own border, the exception 
being what is raised in Canada. Engaged in the indus- 
try in our country, there are upwards of a score of 
growers on a large scale, and numberless smaller growers, 
the great majority of them being located in New York, in 
Michigan, in Northern Wisconsin, and in Canada along 
the margin of Lake Ontario. Some of the smaller 
growers are scattered through’ Eastern Washington, 
Utah, Western Oregon, and Northern California. In 
all these sections the climate and soil are peculiarly 
favorable for seed-pea growing. In the southern por- 
tions, or warmer climates of the country, the crop is 
more subject to the pea weevil than elsewhere, and on 
that account production of seed-peas in such localities 
is not undertaken. 
A yield of pea seed depends upon the variety, 
whether dwarf, tall, small or large-seeded, etc., varying 
according to season, from eighteen to twenty-five bushels 
per acre for early and dwarf sorts, from twenty to 
thirty bushels per acre for taller kinds. Prices for 
staple varieties range from $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel, 
according to variety; newer and choicer varieties, from 
$2.50 to $3.50 per bushel. 
Pea Weevil.—This insect lays its eggs on the out- 
side of the young pods in the field. After these are 
hatched, the young larva works through the pod to the 
