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1‘Votn what has been premised, it is almost certain that inall cases where it is proper to admit peas alone into the rota-tion of a farm under good management, they ought invaria-bly to be sown in drills, and industriously hand-hoed. Inthis way only can such a leguminous crop be made an usefulauxiliary to the clean alternate husbandry, so frequently andso earnestly recommended. The reporter has not had anyextensive experience in the cultivation of clean peas; but intwo or three instances in his practice, he had most convinc-ing evidence of the superiority of drilling over broadcast sow-ing in this crop. The fields were drilled, and carefully hand-hoed, and were as clean as garden beds at harvest, and thecrops both of grain and haunt were quite satisfactory •, butthe head lands had been sown broadcast, and their crop oipeas, thinly scattered among a wilderness of annual weeds ofvarious sorts, were absolutely not worth reaping.

When peas are sown alone in drills, the rows are made ingeneral about twelve inches asunder, but this is too narrowfor horse-hoeing ; from two feet to two and a-half feet is notuncommon, or about the same width as for beans and turnips.They inay either be sown by means of the compound drill-machine already mentioned for wheat and other culmiferousgrain, which sows one ridge at one bout; or by a simpler butmore tedious method, similar to what has been already men-tioned for beans, only with much narrower intervals as al-ready stated. After the land is brought into proper tilth, asmall plough, drawn by one horse, having two mould-boards,is employed to form the soil into shallow drills, or ridgelets,with intermediate hollows, eleven or twelve inches asunder.A single drill-barrow on one wheel, pushed by a man like acommon wheel-barrow, follows the drill-plough in the hol-lows, and sows each drill separately. The seed is partly co-vered by each successive drill formed by the drill-plough, andls effectually covered afterwards by harrowing, which lays allthe drills level. A still better method, because more econo-mical, is to have a small drill-machine attached to the plough

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