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risk crop, which no doubt arises, in a great mea- sure, from the groundless prejudice, that they neither demand, nor merit the attention of good culture; on the contrary, no article of produce demands it more, and it is the only mean in our power to obviate the natural, uncertainty of this crop. Pease are too well known in their chief divisions of the Grey or Hog Pea, and the White Garden Pea, to need any particular de- scription. They are sown upon almost all soils, according to the convenience of the farmer, and are supposed a proper crop for fresh land. The Hpg Pea admits of early sowing, and will succeed upon strong land, the white sown afterwards, rather affect a healthy, light, dry soil, or that which has been chalked. It is unnecessary to repeat the common method of getting in a Pea crop, but of some consequence to remark, how ill it answers the general purposes of agriculture. Pease natu- rally belongto the hoeing and ameliorating course, and besides, the hoeing method is most likely to secure an abundant crop. A portion of manure ought to be allowed them, the land brought to-as fine a tilth as is practicable, and the seed either dibbled, drilled, or rilled by hand, at such inter- vals as will at least admit the hand, if not horse- hoe: such measures, should the pea crop fail from accident, will at least assure a fine preparation for wheat, or any other crop whichcircumstances may render desirable. Quantity of seed, from one bushel to three; and of product at harvest, from a quarter and half, to five quarters per acre. Upon warm and fertile turnip soils, a crop of : Pease