Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-04-15
AGRICULTURAL.
PEAS.

OF the small early kinds of peas, one
pint will sow [according to Loudon a
row Of twenty yards, for the larger sorts
for main crops, the same measure will
sow row of thirty-three yards. The
drills for the early sorts may be one inch
and half deep; and two feet and half,
three, or four feet asunder, according to
the height to which the peas usually grow.
Peas that are to grow without sticks, re-
quire the least room. For summer crops
and large sorts, make the drills two inch
es deep, and four, FIVE, or six feet asun-
der. The distance along the drill should
be according to the size of the peas, and
the season. The frame, three in the
space Of an inch; the Charlton, hotspur,
and dwarf marrowfat, two in an inch the
the Russian blue and middle sized sorts,
three IN two inches; the large marrowfat
or Knights full inch apart.
SoIL AND SITUATION. The soil should
be moderately rich, and the deeper and
strongerlfor lofty growers. Peas are not
assisted, but hurt by unrednced dung re-
Gently turned in. A fresh sandy loan, or
road stuff, and little decomposed yegeta-
BILE matter make the best manure. The
soil for an early crop can hardly be too
dry.
To FORWARD AN EARLY CRoP. Sow
in lines from east to west, and stick row
of spruce, hemlock, or pine branches along
the north side of every row, and sloping
so as to bend over the plants, at one foot
or eighteen inches from the ground. As
the plants advance in height, vary the po-
sition of the branches, so as they may al
ways protect them from the perpendicular
cold or rain, and yet leave them open to
the full influence of the sun. Some cover
during nights and in severe weather, with
two boards, nailed together lengthwise, at
right angles, which forms a very secure
and easily managed covering, but excludes
light.
STICKING PEAS. All peas fruit better
for sticking, and continue longer produce
tive, especially the larger sorts. Provide
branchy sticks of such height as the sorts
may require. For the dwarfs, three feet
high for the Charlton and middle sized,
four or five feet; for the marrowfat and
larger kinds, six or eight feet; for Knights
and other tall marrowfats, nine or ten
feet. Place a row of sticks TO each line
of peas, on the most sunny side, east or
south, that the attraction of the sun may
incline the plants towards the sticks.
Place about half the number on the oppo-
site side, and let both rows stand father
wider at the top than at the ground.
~ e. Farmer
LIME NECESSARY FOR RAISING Peas. 1t
is observed, that the common pea, whether
white gray, cannot be reared to perfec-
ton in any field which has not been either
naturally or arti6cially impregnated with
some cGlcareouS matter. And hence it is
supposed to happen, that peas are rarely
cultivated universally as field crop un-
less in those parts of the country where
either lime, mari, or chalk abounds, or up
on strong clays; except, indeed, on the
sea-coast, where shell-fish are often CATCH
ed in abundance, and where the fields are
MANFRED with their shells in a state of
mixture with dung. But it is remarkable,
that soil that could scarcely have brought
one pea to perfection, although richly ma
nured with dung, from their running too
much to haulm, and after blossoming. dy-
ing away without becoming ripe, if it has
once had lime applied upon it, is capable,
when properly prepared in other respects,
of producing plentiful crops of peas ever
afterwards. 1t is further remarked, on
the result of an experiment, in which the
ridge of a field had been missed in lining,
produced no good wheat, while all the
other parts afforded good crop, that lime,
or some other calcareous material, is
equally necessary for the production of
good wheat crops as for those of the pea
kind. The general observation that the
wheat, where this sort of manure has been
employed, is thinner in the skin, more
plump, and yields better, seems also to ia
YOUR the same conclusion appropriations
of this sort appear likewise, particularly
favourable for the production of barley
crops, much more so, (if in large produc-
tions) than for those of oats.
Dickson's Farmers Companion
D. NJ.