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six inches in light soil, and four inches in cla)' soil, for which reason they 
ought to be sown under furrow, when the plowing is delayed till spring. 
Of all grain, beans excepted, they are in the least danger of being buried too 
deep/' 
Deane observed, that for “ Field-peas, land that is newly plowed out of 
sward is generally accounted best; and land which is high and dry, and has 
not been much dunged. A light, loamy soil is most suitable for them ; and 
if it abound with slaty stones, it is the better. But they will do in any dry 
soil. The manures that suit peas best, are marl and lime. Our farmers do 
not commonly allow a sufficient quantity of seed for peas, in broad-cast sow¬ 
ing. When peas are sowed thin, the plants will lie on the ground, and per¬ 
haps rot: when they are thick, the plants will hold each other up with 
their tendrils, forming a continued web, and will have more benefit of the 
air. 
Insects and diseases .—The Mass. Agricultural Repository , for June, 1822, 
contains some remarks of the Hon. T. Pickering, relative to a bug or fly 
(bruchus pisi), which preys on the pea, in which he observes, that an ef¬ 
fectual remedy for this evil is late sowing; but the hot sun of June will so 
pinch the vines of the late sown peas, that the crop will be small, unless the 
land be moist as well as rich. He then details some experiments, by which 
he concludes that this insect is limited to a certain period for depositing its 
eggs; and if the tender pods are not found till that period has passed, the 
peas wfill be free from bugs. Col Worthington, of Rensselaer county, N. 
Y., u sowed his peas on the 10th of June, six years in succession, and a bug 
has never been seen in his peas. Whereas his neighbors, who have not 
adopted this practice, have scarcely a pea without a bug in it. He suppose? 
the season for depositing the egg of the pea-bug is passed before the peas are 
in flower. 7 '— Mem. of N. Y. Board of Agriculture, vol. ii, p. 23. “The only 
insect that commonly injures our peas is a small brown bug or fly, the egg 
[or larva] of which is deposited in them when they are young and the pods 
easily perforated. The insect does not come out of its nest till he is fur¬ 
nished with short wings. They diminish the peas in which they lodge 
nearly one half, and their leavings are fit only for the food of swine. The 
bugs, however, will be all gone out if you keep them till the following 
autumn. But they who eat buggy peas the winter after they are raised, 
must run the venture of eating the insects. 77 — Deane's N. E. Farmer. The 
same writer recommends, when seed-peas are known or suspected to con¬ 
tain insects, to scald them a quarter of a minute in boiling water, spread 
them about, and sow them without delay. If any of the bugs should be in 
the peas, this scalding w T ill destroy them; and the peas, instead of being 
hurt, will come up the sooner, and grow the faster. 
Mildew is another evil attending peas, especially such as are sown late in 
the season. This disorder is supposed by Knight to be caused by “a warn 
