On Oat Pasture, &e. 187 
my course. If a new path shall be pointed out, and 
which has with greater advantage been trodden for seve- 
ral years, and with a greater number of simple facts 
to recommend it ; it will be cheerfully followed. Other- 
wise the course now beaten by some years experience, 
cannot be abandoned. 
I am most respectfully yours, 
Wiiiiam Youne. 
Grorce Cryrme_r, Esa, 
Vice-President of the Philad. Soc. for promoting Agric. 
It is generally acknowledged, that the best land may 
be reduced to sterility, from an injudicious rotation of 
crops. It remains in a great measure to be proved, 
whether a farm, which from bad management had been 
rendered barren, can be restored to its pristine fertility, 
by a treatment, not beyond the reach of every farmer, 
(nor without the farm) who possesses the land, free 
from incumbrances, which are nearly equal to the sup- 
posed value of his worn out farm. 
When an enquirer examines the publications of those, 
who have given the results of their experiments; It ap- 
pears not only practicable, but easy : irequently how- 
ever, some circumstance is not mentioned in the com- 
municaticn, or some thing not attended to by the reader, 
who intends to make the same successful experiments, 
but fails, from the causes stated. ; 
