1.74: HOW TO MAKE THE FAEM PAT. 



bushels, weighing forty-one pounds by measure — equal to six 

 hundred and fifty-six bushels standard weight. 



" The average crop, this season, of our common degenerated 

 variety, varies from twenty to thirty bushels per acre, weighing 

 twenty to twenty-eight pounds the bushel, quality very inferior. 



" In addition to the vast superiority of the New Brunswick 

 oats, it ripens about one week earlier than our common varie- 

 ties, has heavy, stiff straw, which is not so liable to fall." 



" ISToEWAY Oats. It has been grown in this country for the 

 past two years with great success, and promises to supersede all 

 the best varieties of oats heretofore grown. The grain is verij 

 large and plump, handsome, and of a beautiful color, has a re- 

 markably thin husk, and is nearly double t/ie weight of our com- 

 mon degenerate varieties of oats. 



" This oats ripens earlier than the common varieties, and will 

 yield from fifty to one hundred per cent, more grain per acre, on 

 the same soil, and with the same culture. 



"The straw is a bright clear yellow, stout, and not liable to 

 lodge, and is perfectly clear of rust, and grows from four to five 

 feet high. 



" This oats has been grown on every variety of soil, and in 

 every State of the Union, with the most perfect success." 



It will be useless, however, to pay five dollars per bushel for 

 these oats for seed, unless you are determined to use some care 

 in preserving the seed ; for these, or any other seeds, will de- 

 generate under poor management. Oats can be grown two or 

 three seasons on the same land, by the following treatment. 

 After the crop is cut, harrow in the gleanings and scattered 

 seed; it will be a foot high before winter. Just before the 

 ground freezes, plow it under, running the subsoiler in each 

 furrow after the plow. Early in the spring, prepare the surface 

 with the harrow or cultivator, and drill in two bushels of seed, 



