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surd practice of some farmers, of sowing oats and buck- 
wheat, year after year, as the worst of all rotations; Iam 
convinced from long experience, that an occasional crop 
of oats is no more exhausting than wheat, rye, or corn; 
that it is an excellent nurse for clover, a profitable crop 
for the farmer, and the straw good fodder or litter, with- 
out which he cannot get much dung, the value of which 
is not sufficiently appreciated by many of our farmers. 
Every kind of grain which ripens its seed is an exhaust- 
er, even clover which is the most ameliorating crop 
which we know, if it is but a moderate crop and left 
standing until its seed is full ripe, instead of improving, 
will be found to exhaust the land. 
Before I conclude I must take some notice of the 
mild lime, which I mentioned in a note at the bottom 
of page 8. I then supposed the mild lime above 
mentioned, to be the property of Mr. Barnitt of Marl- 
borough township, but when I was with my friend 
~ Mr. John Mill’s on the 4th instant, he told me that Mr. 
Barnitt’s lime is the hottest and strongest lime in that 
neighbourhood, that the mild lime which I alluded to is 
the property of Mr. Baker of Newlin township. The 
two limes are not more than two or at most three miles 
apart, Mr. Mills’s farm lays nearly in the centre be- 
tween the two, and he occasionally uses both. He says 
that it requires 130 bushels of the mild lime, to go as 
far on land as 100 bushels of the hot lime ;* that the 
* This last brings a higher price than any limes in that 
neighbourhood, or from the valley ; beimg esteemed so much 
more valuable, as it goes farther on land &c. than either of 
these. 
