196 On Oat Pasture, 
ried to the stable, and a crop of turnips taken off the 
ground the same season: the manure was laid on before 
the corn was sown, but none was given when the turnip 
seed was put in. 
Another way in which ‘cats fertilize, appears to be 
from increase of vegetable soil ; this is within the view 
of every observer ; the remains of the pasture ploughed 
in, particularly in July and August is speedily decom- 
posed, its tenderness and moisture aiding the dissolu- 
tion. But dry stubble and husky roots are difficultly 
decomposed, nor do they produce so much carbonic 
or coally matter in the soil, which chemists say decom- 
poses the water, and produce the air required to pro- 
mote vegetation. As the vegetable is produced from 
air and water, and not from earth, which seems to be 
no more than the laboratory where the process of vege- 
tation commences, and finally serves as a matrix to bold 
one part of the plant, while the other parts are raised 
aloft, in quest of superior aid, to complete the inscru- 
table operations of the vegetable fabric. 
It has also been enquired, will this process of oat 
pasture fertilize every where? it is answered, that 
where the soil and climate are the same, the efiects will 
be the same also. A description has been given of the 
soils, where the experiments were made, and are still 
going on. If experiments of the same nature shall be 
made upon a different soil, and climate, the result will 
be different, and more or less favourable, according to 
circumstances, and for which the practice now men- 
tioned, cannot in justice be rendered accountable. If 
my shoe fit my foot, | am warranted to say, it will suit 
a foot of the same size, and shape every where ; let no 
