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our corn rows both a provision and a fertilizing crop, with positive 

 benefit to the growing corn. V 



9th. The aid it gives in producing cheap beef, pork, milk and butter. 

 Without the pea pork could not be produced cheaply, where it costs so 

 much to make com. 



10th. A doubled capacity for wintering stock, and with this, a doubly 

 enlarged manure heap. 



11th. The large plantations of the South can only be restored by 

 green crops turned under, united to a judicious system of rotation looking 

 to feeding the soil. This must be aided by all the manure manufactured 

 on the plantation. 



12th. The large addition made to humus, upon which the tilth, as 

 well as capacity of the soil for retaining moisture so greatly depends. 



As for the cultivation of the pea, one can scarcely go amiss. When 

 two crops are intended for renovating, break the land, sow broadcast 

 and harrow in. Or drill in rows three feet apart, and plow out when a 

 few inches high. When pods begin to ripen, if the crop is intended for 

 manurial purposes, plow under with large two horse plow, with a well 

 sharpened rolling coulter attached, or with chain passing from double 

 tree to beam of the plow to hold the vines down for facilitating cover- 

 ing. A roller passed over the vines before plowing under will assist the 

 operation- Caustic lime should be sown upon the vines before plowing 

 under to promote decay, and neutralize the large amount of vegetable 

 acid covered into the soil. Select the pea which runs least. The vines 

 are easiest covered into the soil. They are the black bunch pea, and the 

 speckle or whippoorwill pea. 



When planted in corn as a food crop, the bunch pea ripens soonest ; 

 hut the Carolina cow pea, the clay pea, or the black stock pea are 

 preferable as they do not readily rot from wet weather, and will re- 

 main Bound most of the winter. For early feeding, of stock, plant 

 whipporwill pea by itself in separate enclosure from corn, where stock 

 can be turned upon whenever desired. 



Peas are often sowed upon the stuble after small grain is harvested. 

 Plush up the ground, and sow either broadcast, or drill in furrow open- 

 ed with shovel plow, covering with- scooter furrow on each side. 

 Block off or run over lightly with harrow and board attached. Again 

 they are drilled in every fourth furrow, when turning over the stubble, 

 the succeeding furrow covering the peas. When either of these last 

 modes of planting is adopted, the peas should receive one good plowing 

 out when they are from four to six inches high. 



When planted in corn (the corn should have been drilled in rows five 

 feet apart), they should be stepdropped in a furrow equally distant from 

 each corn row, and covered with scooter, with harrow or with block. 



