. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. PEA PEA 513 moisture. The pea crop is made by the middle of July and does not draw on the moisture supply in the orchard after that date, when the moisture is needed by the apple trees. [See page 506, Vol. I.] Seed-peas.—When produced for the supply of the seed trade, peas are usually grown on contract, the jobber supplying the planting stock and agreeing to buy the crop at a specified price. The peas are received at the seed houses and pre- pared for marke
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. PEA PEA 513 moisture. The pea crop is made by the middle of July and does not draw on the moisture supply in the orchard after that date, when the moisture is needed by the apple trees. [See page 506, Vol. I.] Seed-peas.—When produced for the supply of the seed trade, peas are usually grown on contract, the jobber supplying the planting stock and agreeing to buy the crop at a specified price. The peas are received at the seed houses and pre- pared for market by recleaning and hand-picking in the same way that beans are prepared. Split peas.—About half a million bushels of smooth or Canada iield-peas are annually required for the produc- tion of "split peas," which are used principally in making soups. The hulls, which are removed in the pro- cess of manufacture, and the refuse peas <ire ground together to make "pea meal," which is sold as a stock- food. Canning.—^The canning factories use the garden pea grown as a field crop, not the type known as field-pea. [The subject of canning is discussed in Part II of this volume.] The pods and vines from canning factories are often ensiled, or fed green. Enemies. ive as a remedy so far as the seed is concerned, but the few beetles which emerge in autumn and hibernate in barns or fields prevent a complete riddance of the pest. In treating the seed it is usually placed in tight vessels or rooms and ex- posed for two or three days to the fumes of bisulfid of carbon. One pound of bisulfid is sufiicient for about one hundred bushels of -The pea crop, as njost others, encoun- ters a number of rather serious obstructions to growth. As a rule, it is not seriously interfered with by weeds, as it starts quickly and makes rapid progress, thus smothering out most weed competi- tion. If, however, the land is infested with the annual wild mustard (Brassiea Sinapistru
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