FASCIATION IN FIELD PEAS. \J\ 
fore becomes a total loss, the more severely felt as there is a large 
force of pickers on hand by contract at the date of the first 
expected picking, all of whom must be paid or at least maintained 
by the trucker. 
The soil of this region is for the most part of a sandy loam, 
inclining to excess of sand, and large quantities of city manure, 
in addition to the turned under legumes and abundant commercial 
fertilizers, are used by the farmers, resulting in a large amount 
of available plant food. When a considerable rainfall with warm 
days, and seeds of unknown quality, are brought together in such 
Fig. 35. Stems arranged to show the free inner tube, size. 
a soil, as in 1903, the conditions are so favorable for vegetative 
development that any weakness on the part of the stock, in respect 
to setting seed in this case, is almost certain to appear. Seed 
from reliable sources and of good quality did not develop the 
tendency to “ rogue ” as did the poor and lower priced seed. 
The truck growers very often purchase their supplies of farm 
material through the commission men who handle the produce 
