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Uiiliiy of preparing Seed-Oats with Plaijier of Paris. Ad~ 

 drejfed to Samuel Pozuely Efq^ Prefident of the Philadelphia 

 Agricultural Society. 



Sir, 

 T>ERMIT me through you to lay before the Agricultural 



Society, the re fult of the following little experiment, fo 

 far as I have as yet been able to afcertain it. 



Late in the month of April laft, having a piece of ground 

 in the vicinity of the borough of Lancafler, prepared to be 

 fawn with oats, which I fuppofed would take fixtcen bufliels of 

 feed, the evening before it was to be fown, I had eight bufhels 

 put into a trough, and covered with water. The next morning 

 the water was drawn off, and the oats laid in a heap to drain, 

 for a fhort time, fay half an hour ; then Plaifter of Paris in 

 powder was thrown on, by frhall quantities at a time, and mixed 

 with the oats, till they acquired a fuff.cient degree of drynefs 

 to be fown evenly ; in this procefs one bufliel of the Plaifter 

 was confumed : the feed thus prepared, artd dry feed from the 

 fame original heap, were fown on alternate lands throughout 

 the field. The whole came up together, and in due time, and 

 no difference was vifible for feven or eight days. From that 

 time forward the diftinftion became very evident ; the oats on 

 the land fown with the prepared feed were much more luxuri- 

 ant and of a deeper green, until they began to ripen. On the 



