74 BLACK OATS, [FEB. 



cult to get it up clean, but its impenetrability by 

 frost will always render it a valuable article, and 

 more so still, if complaints should continue to be 

 heard, of the latter plant degenerating here, and 

 rotting with frosts. The preparation of the nur- 

 sery should be the same as for the preceding ar- 

 ticles, 



PARE AND BURN GRASS-LAND. 



This husbandry is mentioned in the present 

 month,, merely that if the north-east winds should 

 happen to set in the last week of it, the fanner 

 may not lose the opportunity. Those are the most 

 evaporating and drying winds of the year, so that 

 this operation never goes on belter ; and it is to 

 be borne in mind, that the land should be ready 

 pared, to receive their influence when they blow. 

 In the Calendar for March, when this work should 

 be in full operation, I shall examine the question 

 in relation to the expediency of this husbandry, 

 and endeavour to shew, that i no other way 



of breaking up old grass, and all hinds, 



heaths, commons, downs, moors, fens, mountain 



.it is comparable to it. I ; arcd and 



burnt lav ! only 



ten years old, that did well, and yielded r 

 ashes ; an?- , that 



it i-: no iric< 



: h a view to it. 

 rs. 



This month is tho prop on for sowing 



black oats. The hind should have been ploughed 



