1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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MARROWFAT PEAS- WITH OATS. 
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Page 4. F. M. R. inquires as to peas 
and oats. In replying J. Grant Morse 
also inquires who has tried marrowfat 
peas. I recall the fact that previous to 
1857 a plot of ground, perhaps an acre 
in extent, was annually plowed and fer¬ 
tilized with stable manure (it being be¬ 
fore the days of fertilizers as now used) 
and sown with oats and peas. At that 
time marrowfat peas were about all the 
varieties known hereabout. As a boy 
I enjoyed going into this field and pick¬ 
ing the peas for family use. I have in 
recent years been unable to duplicate 
the success attending the earlier ex¬ 
periences on my grandfather’s farm 
from 1850 to 1857. The land I speak 
of was a gravelly hill top, and consid¬ 
ered too poor to raise grass as a paying 
crop. It was plowed deeply and liber¬ 
ally supplied with manure. The s£ed 
was sown at the same time and thor¬ 
oughly harrowed in, sometimes lightly 
plowed in. A disk harrow had not then 
been invented. At the present time I 
would use one. D. E. H. 
Northampton, Mass. 
•ground when they are empty when 
they wi 1 eat the growth, or feed 
them liberally with wheat bran all the 
time they are kept in the brush land. 
The latter is more expensive, and the 
grass sown will not get much chance; 
but the sheep will do well and clean 
up every green thing. If you turn 
cattle in they will trample the seed sown 
out of the ground, and will get little 
to eat, behind the sheep, which eat 
much closer. Cattle will never do well 
in the same pasture as sheep. The lat¬ 
ter eat up the nutritious grasses, and 
foul the land for the cattle. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
Beans for Hens. 
Are boiled or stewed beans any good for 
fowl, or are they harmful ? Some time 
ago I boiled a lot which were too hard to 
cook; they were boiled soft and given to 
them, a flock of over one hundred. I could 
see no harm done; the fowl devoured them 
eagerly. d. d. n. 
Cataumet, Mass. 
We have fed beans to laying hens 
with good results. Our only trouble was 
to get them for a price at which we 
could afford to feed them. Beans are a 
Eight years ago I sowed about lA 
acre of oats and peas to feed to my 
Berkshires. I sowed them at the rate 
of one bushel of each to the acre, but it 
was quite “new” ground with a lot of 
big stumps, so that they were probably 
thicker than that. On one acre, I sowed 
Canada field peas and on the half acre, 
marrowfats. All were sown on the same 
day. These oats and peas were very 
profitable hog feed, and I hardly know 
which of the two kinds of peas paid 
the better. I made a mistake in sowing 
the marrowfats on the richest part of 
the field, and part of them went down 
and rotted; but as it was, we had peas 
galore to eat and sold some in town. 
The marrowfats were heavy strawed, 
and made more green feed. I sowed a 
piece of oats and Canadas last Spring. 
Marrowfats are hard to get, and very- 
high around here. One of these times 
1 am going to thrash some of the oats 
and peas together for seed, and then 
if there is a preponderance of oats, will 
add enough peas to make the seed about 
half and half. E. j. m’d. 
Guy’s Mills, Pa. 
PASTURING BURNED-OVER LAND. 
The fire last Fall burned over about 
100 acres of chopping and more than half 
cleared the same, only leaving a few small 
trees and some logs. I would like to put 
it in shape for good pasture, as it is too 
hilly to farm. Would it be good policy to 
place a sheep fencing about 36 inches high 
and two strands of barb wire above to 
keep out dogs, or place about seven strands 
of barb wire around the piece? I have 
lots of good posts. I would like to keep 
several sheep on this piece to keep down 
the young briar sprouts and weeds, and 
also keep about’ seven head of cattle. 
Would it be a good plan to sow Orchard 
grass seed on this piece? l. w. a. 
Kerrmoor, Pa. 
There is nothing that will keep down 
a growth of sprouts and weeds as 
well as a flock of sheep, if they are 
turned in when the growth is young and 
tender. If the sheep are compelled to 
subsist on these alone there will not 
be much profit derived from them. I 
would suggest fencing it with woven, 
instead of barbed wire. The former is 
fully as cheap, much more durable and 
will keep sheep in. and dogs out, if it 
is from four to five feet high, with 
four-foot posts, a barbed wire on top. 
I would sow on the land 30 pounds 
per acre of the following mixture: 25 
pounds Kentucky Blue grass, 10 pounds 
white clover, 30 pounds perennial rye¬ 
grass, 10 pounds Red fescue, 25 pounds 
Red-top. This will give you a much 
better stand of grass than the Red-top 
alone. If you can work it in with a 
brush harrow it will be best, although 
the sheep will do much in this direction. 
Either (the best way), have another 
field convenient where the sheep can 
get good feed to keep them in condi¬ 
tion, and let them run on the new 
strong feed, very rich in protein, and 
we would cook them and feed in a 
mash much the same as we feed cull 
potatoes. Anyone living in a section 
where beans were one of the market 
crops should be able to buy the pickings 
very reasonably and they make a good 
feed when cooked. Elens like a variety 
in their feed, and any way we can 
please them in this way will pay in the 
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