74 RYE. 



addition a black kind. White oats are most 

 common near London, and black oats in the 

 north. Dr. Johnson, who bore no kindly feeling 

 towards Scotchmen and their country, said, in 

 the first editions of his Dictionary, that oats were 

 "food for horses in England, and men in Scot- 

 land." 



I have said that wheat will grow almost any 

 where; but there are many places where it 

 does not thrive, and yet oats will do very well. 

 In poor lands and wet seasons, these take less 

 harm than other corn ; and good oats may 

 make even better bread than bad wheat. They 

 are sown here sometimes in March, but gene- 

 rally not till April. 



RYE is an inferiour grain, the ear of which 

 somewhat resembles that of barley. It is, 



