58 Ohfer'vations on frojled OatSy i^c, Feb. 



that, in a very ilioit time, their price will be only in proportion to 

 the additional quantity of meal they are capable of oroducing. 



I am aware that the public have a fort of right to expe61: the au» 

 thorns name in the cafe of fuch communications, and even that of 

 his correfpondent, which is perhaps ilill more efTential. But the 

 latter I have not obtained the liberty of doing, and as to the for- 

 mer, though I hate to clokc falfehood, it mull for the prefent be 



£(.7^ Lothian, '^an i . 7 tt 



-^ ' 'L > Urbanus. 



P. S. If I have in any dec^ree mis-flated the article relative to 

 the origin of potatoe-oats (having received it only in a verbal 

 communication), I hope my informant, or fome perfon equally ac- 

 quainted with the matter, will kindly corrccl the miftake in fonie 

 of your fucceeding numbers. 



REMARKS BY THE CONDUCTOR. 



Whether the hillory offered by Urhanus of the potatoe-oat be 

 correcl or incorreft, is a matter of little importance, for the va- 

 riety fo diflinguiilied is univerfally recognized as the beft kind of 

 oats for good foils ; but whether they can be fown with equal ad- 

 vantage upon inferior foils, is not fo clearly ellabliihed. There 

 can be no doubt but that their real value above other oats will in 

 a little time be regulated by the extra quantity of meal produced f 

 and we believe that, in all the diftricls where they are extenfively 

 fown, this criterion is already ellabliihed. We fhall be extremely- 

 happy to fee the parcel of pure feed, which is intended to be fliowa 

 in Haddington market, though we are not of opinion that thcfe 

 hitherto fown have in any great degree degenerated. 



What our correfpondent If ates refpedting the confequences of 

 frofl to oats in different lituations is perfectly correct, and was in 

 fubllance noticed by our Tweedale reporter in laft number. We 

 can bear teffimony that froil will not hurt oats, or any kind of 

 grain, if wind prevails about the time when the fun rifes, or foon 

 afterwards ; though, if carried off by a hot fun, great danger to the 

 plants is the neceffary confequcnce. A fouthern expofure, in 

 fuch cafes, is alway.s attended with greater danger than a northern 

 one, and the higheft fituations are lefs endangered than fuch as are 

 below them, becaufe the effeds of the air are fooner felt in the 

 one fituation than in the other. 



With refpe6t to the mode of correcting frofted oats, fo as they 

 may prove nutritious to horfes, we muff confefs that this is the 

 liril rime it has reached us, and we have not had occafion, in the 

 courfe of our experience, to try any fuch pra»5tice. We, however, 

 recommend it to the notice of our readers in thofe cour.ties where 

 the froft coiifclledly proved injurious lail autumn, and will be 



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