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On Oat Pasture and Improvement of Soils. By William 
Young. Of Delaware. 
Read March 13th, 1810. 
Rockland Farm, March 9th, 1810. 
Sir, 
In compliance with your request, made a consider- 
able time ago, I have inclosed a narrative of the oat 
pasture ; and several circumstances under which it has 
been introduced, with immediate advantage, to the live 
stock and worn fields. 
Ihave endeavoured to copy it from the fields them- 
selves; I have however, designedly as it were gone 
back, to give another view, of some circumstances 
which are deemed important, and not with a view to 
overcome your patience, but to remove doubts, and 
introduce the experiments before you, in a different 
point of view. The inferences respecting the advan- 
tages, or use of the oat pasture, have been, and still may 
be deemed a whimsical expedient to spend money ; it 
may be ridiculed by others. Butas it has outlived, and 
overgrown every thing of that nature here, there is some 
hope, that it may become indigenous elsewhere: it has 
been weighed for years under hopes and fears. Not 
that I dread criticisms, made under circumstances 
which offer a hearing, in private, and before the public 
tribunal, on equal ground, foot by foot, with the critic. 
It would give satisfaction to convince, or to be con- 
vinced. Improvement is the goal towards which I bend 
