192 On Oat Pasture, 
tread it into the soil; and sometimes dry seasons are also 
highly injurious to the clover. When the clover is sown 
with the second sowing of oats, the same care is re- 
quired to prevent its being trodden im by the live stock, 
for this purpose it is always necessary to have a spare 
field of old pasture, which they will feed upon in wet 
weather, and which they would not relish in dry wea- 
ther. To guard against a dry season it is most proper 
never to pasture the oats, where the clover is sown, so 
much, as to prevent the herbage of the oats from giving 
shade to the clover. So soon asa field will produce 
clover luxuriantly, there is no farmer at a loss how to 
make his field as rich as he pleases and having got 
them into good heart, it will be his interest to put them 
in such rotation, as shall increase the vegetable soil and 
consequent fertility of his fields. 
It is almost unnecessary, to mention, what will make 
its way to the understanding of every farmer, viz. The 
many advantages gained from treating his barren field 
in this way. 
Ist. Early and late sweet pasture from such fields, 
which otherwise produced a scanty course herbage un. 
palatable to every animal. 
2d. Immediate reward for his labour; the stock are 
supported by it within two months from the time seed 
is sown: the two returns give six months green food ; 
he is not however to depend upon it for all his summer 
pasture. 
3d. Perhaps itis one of the most effectual means to root 
out garlick, because what have escaped the plough in 
the spring, are eaten down with the pasture from the 
first sowing of oats and prevented from going into seed : 
