. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. d a long median tendril. Thereare present leafy stipules. Two, or more flowersare borne in the axils of the leaves on flowerstalks shorter than the leaves. The legume isfinally flat, many-seeded and from two to fourinches long. The seeds are smooth, hard andrather, angular and gray-green, gray-yellowish, orgray dotted with purple, blue, rust-red, or brownishspots. Cultivation and Harvesting.—The plant is adapted to growth incHmates with a cool growing season, as in Canada, Mich
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. d a long median tendril. Thereare present leafy stipules. Two, or more flowersare borne in the axils of the leaves on flowerstalks shorter than the leaves. The legume isfinally flat, many-seeded and from two to fourinches long. The seeds are smooth, hard andrather, angular and gray-green, gray-yellowish, orgray dotted with purple, blue, rust-red, or brownishspots. Cultivation and Harvesting.—The plant is adapted to growth incHmates with a cool growing season, as in Canada, Michigan and Wiscon-sin. The yield in Canada is from thirty-five to forty bushels and in theabove states sixteen bushels per acre. Any soil, that will raise oats, willraise field peas. Sandy soils are better than clay soils. The pea has ahigh germinating power and will start at quite a low temperature. Theseeds should be sown, as early, as possible in the spring, and hence, sandysoils permit the adoption of this principle of sowing. Peas should besown deeply and broadcast. A disk harrow should be used to cover the. Fig. 85.—Pods ofgarden pea {Pisumsativum). {After Abel,Mary H.: Beans, Peasand other Legumes asFood. Farmers Bulletin121, 1900, p. 13.) \ 200 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY seeds, which should be used at the rate of to bushels per acre. Harvesting is difficult, because of the prostrate habit of the plants. They may be cut with the ordinarymowing machine and rakedinto piles with a sulky is customary to harvestwhen two-thirds of the podsare yellow. When dried, thehay should be stacked undercover, or threshed at once witha pea huller. Utility.—Peas furnish agood food for milk cows, swine,sheep, horses and cattle. Peasgrown with some other kinds ofgrain are of great value as asoiling crop. Peas can be usedas nitrogen gatherers, andtherefore, for green peas are treated as a haycrop, for the making of silageand is a cover crop. TheOntario S
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