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always been to put it in with a common grain drill, 

 but some advocate putting the peas in deep and 

 broadcasting the oats. I cannot say as to this. I 

 always had great success putting them in together 

 with the drill, making one job of it. I do not see 

 how it is possible to produce any better results than 

 I have attained by this method. 



Oats and peas are a most excellent soiling crop for 

 ewes when suckling their lambs, and when it is de- 

 sirable to crowd the lambs for the butcher, they will 

 be found a most excellent assistant. Brood mares 

 with foal at foot can have no better treatment than 

 to be put into the barn daytimes, and fed a liberal 

 supply of oats and peas. I am in favor of it for 

 work-horses, if they must have green food. Of 

 course, there is nothing better than good timothy 

 hay and oats for a horse to work on, but oats and 

 peas may be fed without loosening the bowels, as is 

 often the case with grass or clover. Lucern, how- 

 ever, is, no doubt, quite equal to oats and peas for 

 feeding horses. In feeding oats and peas to work 

 horses, I prefer them well advanced, that is to saj', 

 the heads well formed, and the peas old enough for 

 table purpose, or a little beyond that stage. In a 

 letter from Mr.Crozier, of Long Island, after men- 

 tioning several of the leading crops that he uses for 

 soiling, he says, " I also grow that most valuable crop 

 for soiling, oats and peas, one of the best crops I 

 grow." 



^r. T. Brown, in an article in " The Country Gen- 

 tlernah, " g'ives it as his experience that oats cut and 



