194 On Oat Pasture, 
the pasture being’so much the thicker, and the increase 
of vegetable soil from the decayed roots so much the 
greater. 
It is not to be expected, that one or two repetitions 
of the series of oat pasture, will make the soil equally 
rich as a common dressing of stable manure, which 
from a farm of 100 acres, will not in general extend 
over more than 10 or 15 acres; this gives to one acre 
nearly the vegetable soil produced from seven or 10 
acres.—It is to be remembered, that the object pro- 
posed was to render worn out, or barren fields produc- 
tive; and in no case have I found a field, which was 
not after two years oat pasture, capable of producing 
clover, and receiving the gypsum with evident advan- 
tage. So-soon as a field produces clover, no one Is at a 
loss, how to produce advantageous crops afterwards. 
It is in every ones power, to estimate what the plough- 
ing and seeding per acre of oat pasture will cost, and 
according to circumstances, so will the expences be, 
but in general where the expences are high, the value 
of the pasture is equally so, and if even granted that the 
cost of ploughing, and seeding, shall be double in va- 
lue to the pasture preduced, jet the comparative value 
of the field be fairly estimated, before the course was 
begun, a waste, or worn out field, and what it is now, 
when the course is completed and laid down in clover, | 
timothy or orchard grass. 
It wall be of the first importance to have at least two 
fields, otherwise if the cattle are constantly upon the 
same field it will not be feund so productive, and in 
wet weather, they should be turned into some field 
where the herbage was too hard in dry weather. It will 
