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down and stored away for next year. The ground 

 is well cultivated and red clover is sowed. 



" The land on which I grow peas is an old field 

 that was farmed in wheat for many years until the 

 soil was practically exhausted. I first lined it with 

 some fertilizer and succeeded in getting a fair catch 

 of red clover. I have never used any barnyard 

 manure on it, depending entirely on commercial 

 fertilizers and clover. The heavy application of 

 fertilizers insures a good catch of clover. I usually 

 mow the clover twice a year and plant again in 

 peas. 



" The land is now set in young cherry and pear 

 trees, only a little extra room being left for each 

 row of trees, the rows of peas being planted 4 or 5 

 feet from the trees. The trees reach out their roots 

 and get a share of the fertilizer and seem to enjoy 

 it. I find that the peas do better after they have 

 been grown a year or two on the same ground, 

 with crops of clover the years between. Whether 

 this is because the nitrogen-gathering bacteria be- 

 come more numerous after repeated growing of 

 these leguminous crops, I cannot say with cer- 

 tainty." 



RADISH 



Radish seed is sown in drills in the earliest spring 

 and for successional plantings at intervals of a week 

 or ten days. By allowing 4 to 6 feet of the drill to 

 each member of the family, and making five or six 

 sowings at intervals, there should be a sufficient 

 supply until early summer. During summer the 

 plants are apt to become woody and strong and to 

 run to seed quickly. The rows may be only 6 or 8 



