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were nowhere greater than in well-cultivated fields here 

 in Sweden. The same can also be said about the Barley. 



Artland. Pease-land is found in many places. The Peas 

 were sown in rows. The distance between two rows was 

 sometimes 18 inches, sometimes 21 inches, sometimes 2 ft. 



In the same manner, beans were also sown in rows. 

 This was done partly because the weeds, which both 

 smother and draw food from the peas, could then more 

 easily be cleared away between the rows with a hoe, hacka; 

 partly because one could then conveniently go and pluck 

 the peas without trampling them down ; for it is to be 

 remarked that the Englishmen are very much given to 

 eating green peas in the summer ; besides that, those who 

 live near London, or have the opportunity of sending 

 green peas in the shell thither, sow a great quantity of 

 peas for that purpose only, that they may turn an honest 

 -penny by selling them. 



They had here cleaned away the weeds between the 

 rows with a hoe, and drawn the loose mould up against 

 the roots and stalks of the pease plants. The peas grow 

 all the better for the soil being so friable and loose. 

 No cut sticks, twigs, or anything else, were laid on the 

 ground for the peas to creep upon and cling to, but they 

 lay stretched out upon the bare earth. 



[T. I. p. 483.] Here and there were hung up dead 

 crows, Krakor, of that sort which in the island are called 

 Rooks, Rokor [Corvus frugilegus] thereby to strike terror 

 into those of their relations who are left behind, more 

 especially because this kind of bird is in England the 

 greatest pest for the pease fields.* 



* Montagu says Rooks are "content with feeding on the insect tribe, 

 particularly what is called the grub-worm, which is the larva of the chaffer 

 [? cockchafer]. But in rendering the husbandman this piece of service, it 

 pays itself by taking some of his corn also." (Ornith. Diet., 1802, 

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