The Somerset reporter., 1898-09-22
A LATE CROP OF vEAS.
saiidew Causes Trouble - Success With
smooth Leafed Extra Early Kinds.

saiidew Causes Trouble = Success With
smooth Leafed Extra Early Kinds.
An interesting little interchange of
experience with late peas occurs in Ru-
raj New Yorker.
A Massachusetts man says: l have,
very few times, seen green peas IL Sep
TENDER or October. but usually plant
ings for maturing at that season fail
from mildew. The heat of midsummer
seems to cause the trouble, for when
sown i'll august to make late fodder
they remain green until the middle of
November | have sown them now for
several years past with oats in my
peach orchard, but the oats blight so
often that | shall this year use corn
instead. trying to sow as early as Aug
/. Sewn SO late, the peas reach only the
blooming stage. | used the Canada field
pea | found by trial last season that
oats and peas make a very superior
mulch for straw berries, and this year |
shall pillow my bearing bed when the
fruit is off and SOW for that purpose
using corn instead of oats.
From Rhode Island comes this advice;
l cannot say that | have ever raised a
satisfactory crop of late peas, yet some
paintings have done better than others
| have sprayed the vines with bordeaux
mixture without apparent results and at
present am inclined to think that the
mildew gets the credit of doing more
harm than it deserves 1t does not seem
l.,t L., > hot - tho hi OH tae fi1r
alone that interferes with the growth
of late peas, because they often seem to
thrive during the intense heat in July
if on moist ground. think that Motifs
Excelsior has done as we'll with me, for
both early and late crop as any kind
that have raised. like it better than
the higher growing kinds, and | think
it is quite as productive when planted
closely.
would plant late peas ON COOL moist
soil, and not use any coarse manure at
the time of planting. | would pillow
deep burrows and use chemical fertilizer
literally, working it down deep in
them, and not fill them nearer than
within two inches of the top, when the
peas are covered. Theoretically, then,
the burrows should be mulched so that
the root growth of the peas would get
good start before the sprouts appear
above the ground. and perhaps with this
advantage the tops would not outrun
the roots as they appear to do when
planted in the ordinary way.
Henry A. Dreer of Philadelphia
writes In this latitude our truckers
plant extra early wrinkled peas, such
as Motifs Excelsior, American Wonder
and Premium Gem, until about Aug.
10 to 20 and from that date until Sept.
/, they make three or four large plant
ings of the extra earlies. The extra
early varieties can also be planted along
with the wrinkled varieties already
named from the middle of July until
the middle of August, and will bring
good returns. Should we use the latter
types, large leafed wrinkled varieties,
we would have trouble with mildew;
hence the free use of the smooth leafed
early extra varieties, and we know of
no case, excepting where a protracted
drought has interfered in the early part
of September, that there was not good
yield. We have made repeated plant
ings in our trial grounds OF the extra
early varieties to test the quality and
also purity and have in every case got
good results. The extra earlies referred
20 are the round smooth grains.