108 JOHNSON & STOKES 
PEAS. 
It will require one and one-half to two bushels of peas to 
seed an acre, and no crop finds a more ready sale than fresh 
peas in the summer and autumn markets. Farmers who are 
near centres of population, or who enjoy good shipping 
facilities, will find peas a quick money crop. 
Any good soil will produce a crop of this excellent vege- 
table, but it must not be assumed because the pea is a legume, 
with nitrogen-collecting roots, that it will not well repay 
the application of manure to the soil. Peas and beans need 
less assistance than some some other things, but they give 
good returns for the application of rotted manure or artifi- 
cial fertilizer. 
The seed should be put into the ground in early spring, 
as soon as the soil is dry enough to receive it, beginning 
with the smooth, extra-early sorts, which are more hardy 
than the wrinkled varieties. A little subsequent frost will do 
no harm. 
The smooth, early sorts should be sown in rows, about 3 
feet apart, the intermediate or half-dwarf sorts in rows 4 feet 
apart, and the tall, late varieties, in rows 5 feet apart. 
In field operations no sticks are used, and large pickings 
are taken even from the tall-growing vines while sprawling 
upon the ground; and the labor is vastly less where no sticks 
are employed. 
The early peas should stand closer in the rows than the 
later and larger sorts. The Extra Early kinds mature in 
fifty to fifty-five days from germination; the intermediate 
Peas. — Earliest for the South — Johnson & Stokes' New Record Extra 
Early, Alaska; second early — Johnson & Stokes' Second Early Market 
Garden; late — Giant Podded Marrow, Improved Stratagem, Crown 
Prince, Sugar Marrow. For descriptions, see "J onn son & Stokes' 
Garden and Farm Manual." 
