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THE RURAL NEW-VORKER 
March 28, 
PEAS FOR CANNING FACTORY. 
Will some grower who knows how tell us 
about growing a crop of canning peas? 
Peas may be successfully grown on 
any soil that will grow good clover. 
We plow the ground as early in the 
Spring as possible, harrowing down 
very fine. It is better to plow in Spring, 
as peas will come up quicker sown on 
SQring-plowed ground than on Fall- 
plowed ground, and if we are to sow 
Alaskas or any other early blue pea, 
we drill just as early as possible, with 
grain drill, at the rate of from 2 l / 2 to 
four bushels per acre, but ground has 
to be very strong to mature peas sown 
at the rate of four bushels per acre. I 
like to use about 2^ to three bushels 
on an acre. Drill as deep as possible, 
sowing at the same time from 250 to 
500 pounds of some fertilizer with an 
analysis of about eight per cent phos¬ 
phoric acid and eight per cent potash. 
We need little or no nitrate, as peas 
obtain that from the air. If we are to 
sow the Admiral, Advancer or any of 
the wrinkled sorts we wait until we 
are reasonably sure of having no long 
cold wet spell as the wrinkled peas are 
subject to rot if weather is bad, other¬ 
wise they are handled the same as the 
early peas. 
Cultivation consists of going over the 
ground two or three times with the 
weeder before the peas come up, the 
last time being just as the peas are com¬ 
ing through the ground. No further 
attention need be given until time to 
harvest the crop. Then it needs to be 
watched closely to make sure that the 
peas do not get too hard as the fac¬ 
tories will not take peas that are hard. 
Peas are just right when a pea held 
between the thumb and finger will mash 
when squeezed, but when they will split 
and fly away they are too hard. When 
the pod that set first on the vine begins 
to turn white the peas must be picked 
at once. 
There are two ways of harvesting* 
peas, one by gangs of pickers, usually 
foreigners, who pull the vines and pick 
off the peas, or by mowing the vines 
and drawing them to the viners at the 
factory, which separate the shelled peas 
from the vines and pods. The vines 
when pulled by the pickers may be 
cured for hay, and I have been told the 
vines, run through the viners, make 
good silage. I think well-cured pea vine 
hay makes nearly as good cow feed as 
the best clover hay. We pay one-half 
cent per pound for picking and 15 cents 
per hour for the boss. The factory pays 
us V / 2 cent per pound for the peas' in 
the pods. I do not know just the 
price paid where the viner is used, as 
our factory has none. The net income 
from an acre of peas will vary from 
nothing up to $75 and even $80, all de¬ 
pending on the weather, soil, etc. Don’t 
try to grow peas where clover will not 
grow. A crop of late potatoes may be 
grown after early peas and after late 
peas we may sow rye or wheat. The 
income from early peas, grown for the 
canning factory, as not as great, usually, 
as the late kinds but we get two crops 
in one season by sowing early peas 
and following with late potatoes. Peas 
are a good crop to seed to clover with. 
Peas are a profitable crop to grow and 
they improve the physical condition of 
the Soil. A. K. JOHNSON. 
Erie Co., N. Y. 
Chemical Fertilizer for Garden. 
J. If. D., Mansfield Depot, Conn .—Give 
a formula of a good fertilizer for garden 
use. 
Ans. —We should want a mixture of 
chemicals containing four per cent of 
nitrogen, eight or nine of phosphoric 
acid and at least six of potash in order 
to fertilize a good garden. The 80 
pounds of nitrogen should be in 
three forms—nitrates, ammonia and or¬ 
ganic. Nitrate of soda, sulphate of 
ammonia and dried blood would give 
these three forms. The phosphoric acid 
could be obtained from fine ground 
bone and acid phosphate and the potash 
from sulphate of potash. The follow¬ 
ing mixture would give the analysis: 
Nitro- Phos. Pot- 
gon 
Acid 
ash 
200 lbs. nitrate of soda. 
100 lbs. snip, of ammonia... 
. .20 
200 lbs. dried blood. 
. .24 
4 
.100 lbs. lwno. 
. .10 
7T5 
750 lbs. acid phosphate. 
300 lbs. sulphate potash. . . . 
105 
150 
1850 lbs. 
. . 86 
184 
150 
By adding 150 pounds 
of 
plaster 
or 
very dry dirt you would have a mix¬ 
ture containing over four per cent nitro¬ 
gen, nine of phosphoric acid and 7 y 2 of 
potash. Smaller quantities of these 
chemicals can be used in the same pro¬ 
portions. 
Steel Harness. 
TT. T., Milltown, A 7. 7?., Canada .—Can 
you give me any information about the 
steel harness that is used without whiffle- 
frees with only a chain between the horses? 
Is it a good thing on a farm? Can it he 
used with farming tools with poles? I 
have a horse that is troublesome about the 
Chains dangling about liis legs, and thought 
perhaps that harness would be good in his 
case. 
Ans. —We have used such a harness 
for some years. It is excellent for 
plows, harrows and other work where 
no backing is required. It does not 
work so well on a pole, as the hnrses 
cannot use their weight to good advan¬ 
tage in backing. 
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