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oats and ploughed in with the stubble as a preparation for a 

 crop of corn. No manure is applied with the oats. 



4. Pease and Oats or Meslin. — The prevailing custom 

 among the Deerfield farmers, is to sow pease and oats together, 

 so as that the crop shall be in the proportion of one quarter 

 pease to three quarters of oats. The pea customarily sowed 

 in these cases is a green pea from Canada, which ripens 

 about the time of the oats, and for which while growing 

 the oats act as supporters. Pease and oats are usually ground 

 together as feed for their fatting cattle, and are deemed valua- 

 ble, though not so good or so much relished as Indian meal 

 without mixture. 



I have only two estimates of the cost of cultivating oats, and 

 these where they come in in the rotation the year after the 

 corn. 



Return. 



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Straw, more than one ton, 

 35 bushels oats at 50 cents. 



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Balance in favor of the oats, 



Another farmer gives the following account of a mixed crop 

 of wheat and oats in the proportion of half a bushel of wheat 

 with two bushels of oats. This is thought to make an excellent 

 feed for animals. Some of the human family have no absolute 

 distaste for it. 



