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doubt that over .one hundred bushels to the acre have been 

 raised of the " Surprise Oats," the " Norway Oats," and the 

 "New Brunwsick Oats." Not having grown these oats our- 

 selves, we depend upon the following statements from the 

 American Stock Journal, to sustain our remarks: 



'' The Surprise Oats. The producing classes are interested 

 in knowing more about these oats. The writer has a wholesome 

 distrust of new seeds, wonderful roots, and remarkable fruits. 

 He looks a man in the eye steadily a long time before he re- 

 ceives his statements of the wonderful character and newness 

 of any thing. And even then, like Thomas, he doubts. Ac- 

 cordingly, to satisfy himself concerning the statement made of 

 these oats, he has to-day visited Sandwick, talked with Mr. Van 

 Olinda's neighbors, looked upon and walked over the fields 

 where the oats grew, examined the straw, explored the granary 

 where the oats are stored, seen and felt of them as they came 

 from the thresher, handled them as they came from the fanning 

 mill, thrust his hands into the bins from which the public are 

 supplied. And we are entirely satisfied, that if we can believe 

 our own senses, there is no sort of humbug about them. They 

 are of wonderful size, weight, and beauty — will weigh nearly 

 or quite as much per bushel as barley." 



" New Brunswick Oats. Having purchased, in the spring 

 of 1866, two bushels of the above-named variety of oats, and 

 grown it with such astonishing success, for two successive sea- 

 sons, without the slightest deterioration, I will briefly state my 

 experience relative to its qualities. The two bushels above 

 mentioned were sown in drill, on three quarters of an acre, the 

 tenth day of April, 1866. The yield was forty-one bushels — 

 weighing forty pounds by measure — equal to seventy-three 

 bushels standard measure per acre. Last spring I drilled broad- 

 cast twelve acres, and harvested four hundred . and eighty 



