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Barbauchlin Oat, which is much recommended. Mr 

 Blackic of Holydown, has had a few acres of them for 

 years back. They are coarse in the grain, but very pro- 

 lific ; the straw, which is strong, answers very well for 

 cattle in a straw yard, and they produce one fourth more 

 straw than any other kind. They give perhaps one- 

 tenth part less meal than potato oats, but they ripen 

 nearly as early. It is supposed that they would answer 

 very well in the northern districts, where the soil is sandy 

 with a kind of gravel. They now sow a considerable 

 chare of them in Galawater. 



4. Rye. 



This species of grain is not very extensively cultivated 

 in Scotland and the winter sort, without which the 

 countries on the coasts of the Baltic could hardly be sub- 

 sisted, is almost unknown. My principal reason for 

 mentioning it at all is, that in the opinion of a most in- 

 telligent practical farmer in Roxburghshire, rye, on 

 moorish grounds, is a more certain crop than oats ; a 

 fact little known, but of infinite importance in carrying 

 on the improvement of our barren districts. 



5. Pease. 



For some years past pease have been a precarious crop 

 in Scotland, principally owing to the continual rains in 



there, had last year potato and Church's oats sown on a rich 

 field of equal soil, at the same time, ami that Church's oats 

 yielded fifteen "Winchester bushels per English acre more than 

 the other. It would be very important to raise a variety 

 from Church's, or some other species of oat, without a bo- 

 som pickle as the grain would be more equal in point of 

 size and quality, and lets liable to (hake. 



