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black oats, which frequently lodge, and rot in wet 

 feafons. Notwithftanding this, a moft luxuriant verdure 

 foon takes place, without any affiftance from hay-feeds; 

 the white meadow grafs (Holcus lanatus), being pecu- 

 liar to fuch foils, foon occupies the furface. 



This mode of bringing in land has of late years 

 been very much attended to, which the people find 

 to their advantage, in point of gaining annually a 

 confiderable acquifition to meadow land, the want of 

 which is the greateft inconvenience this county la- 

 bours under. 



Otfervations. 



If, inftead of always following potatoes with barley 

 in good foils, we were occafionally to introduce wheat, 

 no doubt we would get into a better habit of living, 

 with refpect to food, than is at prefent the cafe. The 

 leflfening the confumption of fpirits, and the getting 

 into a mode of ufmg wheaten, and rye bread, (which 

 fhould be generally mixed, for the ufe of labour- 

 ing people) are two objects of great importance to 

 the community. Oatmeal is not calculated for making 

 bread ; it is well known, that a pound of it will go 

 farther in a family, made into hafty pudding, or ftira- 

 bout, according to the general phrafe, than a pound 

 and a half made into bread ; and yet, notwithstanding 

 all this, I find there is a confiderable deal more meal 



ufed 



