Bean and Pea seeds

 I would like the views from any one, on the pros  and cons , on soaking bean and pea seeds to swell them before sowing. During the late 40s when as a boy, can recall my father and other people on the allotment, not only soaking these seeds in water but parafin to stop wireworm attacks.

Never soak also.

i soak my peas in parrafin for the greenhouse to stop the mice eating them but only for 1/2 hour and it works well before i did this the mice used to eat them quicker than they could grow.