50 HINTS ON RAISING FARM CROPS 
also used in connection with oats and rape for 
hog pastures. 
They are usually sown at the rate of one and 
one-half bushels of field peas to one bushel 
of oats to the acre. When sown with another 
crop, such as oats, the peas are held up much 
better from the ground than when they are 
sown alone. The common way of sowing this 
crop is by means of the drill, and either mixed 
with the oats or sown separately. This seed 
can be sown just as soon in the spring as the 
ground can be worked up. 
Canadian field peas make a good hay with 
oats, and the making of this hay is not material¬ 
ly different from the making of the other kinds 
of hay. The field peas should be cut for hay 
before the pods are allowed to ripen. Just 
about the time the pods are filling is the ideal 
time to cut field peas. The grain crop, or oats 
should be in the proper hay stage by this time, 
if sown at the same time as the field peas. 
Another precaution to be observed is that too 
much raking of the hay will result in consider¬ 
able loss of seed, so, for this reason, the hay 
should be cured in the cock rather than in 
the swath. 
There are some varieties of the ordinary gar¬ 
den bean that are raised on a larger scale 
than the common garden plan. Some sections of 
the East raise these beans under field condi¬ 
tions, planting them in rows about three feet 
apart, so that they may be cultivated by horse 
drawn implements. Beans require a fairly 
warm soil before they will commence to make 
growth, therefore they cannot be planted quite 
