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A : — No sir. Whenever the ground is dry and the prospects 

 are for dry weather, then get your peas under the ground. In the 

 dry season the nicest thing to plant peas with is a planter and 

 the ground pressed on it. In a wet season — that is the worst. 

 There is one thing, no one can tell what to do with the next year. 

 As I said awhile ago, if a wet season and the ground is wet, it 

 don't take hardly anything to sprout a pea and it will come along 

 all right. Sow broadcast in wet season. Or, if you have an oat 

 seeder, you can use that. 



Q : — How about planting in connection with corn, and not 

 planting till June, won't do to leave corn to that time? 



A: — I spoke of not planting until the 1st of June for the 

 general hay crop, where we don't cultivate. The Arkansas Ex- 

 periment Station three years ago started in and they planted. 

 One said ''We are not on the right track for raising peas here at 

 all, but we haven't the right kind of machinery and we don't like 

 to handle a hoe." Yet one man told me he could make $5.00 a 

 day cutting peas with a hoe. The Arkansas people planted a peck 

 to the acre, two peck, three pecks and up to eight pecks, planted 

 in rows 30 inches apart and cultivated them. Anyway, when 

 they harvested that crop, where they planted a peck to the acre 

 they had 31 bushels and some pounds of seed and over 3,000 

 pounds hay to the acre ; where two pecks, they had 28 bushels 

 seed and less hay, and so on it went, and where they had 8 pecks 

 to the acre and cultivated they had 11 bushels of seed, 1,300 

 JDOunds hay. That don't look reasonable and yet that is just on the 

 surface. When we stop to consider that if we plant corn the 

 same way we would get about the same results. It goes to show 

 vrhat they have. A peck to the acre they have an average of 110 

 plants to the 100 feet of row. Where 8 pecks they had nearly 

 1,000, nearly 900 plants to the row. I believe that the time will 

 come when we will find it to an advantage in our county to plant 

 peas in rows 2J^ or 3 feet apart and cultivate them. W^e will 

 have to have some machinery to work with. We won't work by 

 hand in this county. I think that in course of time we can get a 

 one-horse machine so one horse will break between these rows 

 and a shear on each side like bean cutters in New York state. 



