50 JANUARY. 



objects, which are truly interesting. A fanner may 

 take such a ride, at the ex pence of as many gtti- 

 neas as he is out days, and he will not find this 

 money the most unproductive that he expends. 



OATS. 



Early in this month, if the weather be open, the 

 young fanner may examine such fields as he in- 

 tends sowing with oats, that he may consider if he 

 has any apprehension of having his hands full of 

 business in February and March, whether he 

 should not lessen the work of those more busy 

 seasons, by sowing some oats now. The temper of 

 the soil must govern him : but it is necessary 

 that he should know that oats sown so early suc- 

 ceed well, as will appear from two very important 

 experiments, one made by the late Mr. Macro, o 

 Suffolk, and the other by the present Earl of Win- 

 chilsea. * The former observes : " Having tried 

 early and late sowing of barley, in the year 1784 

 and 1785, I had a mind, the following season, 

 to try the same experiment with white oats ; and 

 began by sowing one acre, in December 1785, with 

 one coomb of seed, harrowed in upon a wheat 

 -stubble, with one earth. Value of land 10s. an 

 acre. 



" In January 1786, I sowed exactly another acre 

 by the side of it, with the same quantity of seed, 

 and dressed it in the same manner. In February, 

 Another acre the same, except half a bushel less 

 seed. In the beginning of March I ploughed the 



remaining 



