22 The Colorado Experiment Station. 
to supply the canning factories at Greeley, Loveland and Long¬ 
mont. 
Soil .—Peas do well on a variety of soils. For the early crop 
a sandy loam is best, while a’ clayey loam is perhaps more suitable 
for the main crop. The soil should be deeply prepared and liberal 
quantities of stable manure applied. 
Planting .—For the home garden, peas are often planted in 
double rows six inches apart with two to two and a half feet be¬ 
tween the double rows. The tall growing kinds require a trellis of 
some kind to support them and this may be supplied by using brush 
stuck between the rows, or chicken w re may be used. The seed 
are planted as early in the season as the ground can be gotten in 
shape. It has been found that the vines will produce better and for 
a longer period if the seed are planted four or five inches deep. For 
the home garden, successive plantings should be made in order to 
have them in edible condition for a longer period. 
For canning purposes, the seed may be sown with an ordinary 
grain drill. The crop is allowed to mature with no special attention 
or cultivation other than thorough preparation of the soil. The 
vines grow at will and are not provided with trellises or supports. 
When the greatest percentage of the pods are in the proper condi¬ 
tion, the vines are cut with a mowing machine and run through spe¬ 
cially prepared threshing machines which separate the peas from 
the pods. They are then washed and graded, after which they are 
ready to be canned. 
Types of Peas .—There are three types of peas under cultiva¬ 
tion: (i) The smooth round-seeded kinds; (2) the wrmkled- 
seeded kinds; and (3) those with edible pods. Only the first two 
are of importance. The different kinds are further divided into 
tall, medium and dwarf growing varieties. Generally speaking, the 
dwarf round-seeded varieties are the earliest and most hardy. On 
the other hand, the tall growing, wrinkled-seeded varieties ».re of 
better quality and have a longer fruiting period. 
PEPPER. 
Pepper requires about the same conditions as the egg plant 
and tomato. The seed are slow to germinate and should be started 
in the greenhouse or hotbed in March in order to have good s zed 
plants for setting out when danger of frost is past. The young 
plants should be transplanted once before they are finally moved in¬ 
to the field. The distances for setting the plants outside are 15 to 
18 inches apart in rows which are two to two and a half feet apart. 
The subsequent cultivation of the crop consists in keeping down 
weeds and stirring the soil from time to time. 
