THE 



FARMER'S MAGAZINE^ 



MONDAY, 20. OCTOBER 1800. 



{N° IV.) 



PART I. 

 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



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^ TO THE CONDUCTORS Of THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



Letier concernitig the Management of a Late Crop of Oats. 



Gentlemen, 



INVITED by the introduftion to your Firft Number, I beg 

 leave to offer to your confideration fotne obfervations and. 

 experiments, made in the management of a late crop of oats, 

 during the laft unfavourable harveft, which may perhaps be of 

 ufe to fome of your readers, under fimilar ciicumftances. 



Having been induced to break up about eighty acres of a 

 fheep-pailure, in a pretty high fituation, confifting of a light 

 dry foil, upon a whin-ftone gravel, that was very much over- 

 run with fog, I had the whole of it ploughed laft Spring by 

 the middle of February ; but as none of it had ever been in 

 tillage, I was afraid to riHc a crop of early oats, and unfortu- 

 nately determ.ined to fow the whole with common oats, which 

 I began to do during the laft week of February. I had got a 

 few bolls fown in very good order, and another break half 

 harrowed, when a fall of fnow, with a pretty fevere frofl, fet 

 in, which continued betwixt a fortnight and three weeks. 

 Upon a change of weather, I found fuch part of the feed as 

 had been covered with fnow fo far advanced in vegetation, 

 that I allowed it to remain in that (late, rather than difturb it 

 with additional harrowing. The whole was completed early 

 in April ; and, when the braird made its appearance, I was 

 agreeably difappointcd, to find no apparent difference on what 

 had been expofed to the feverity of the weather, from the 



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