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be, 1. Turnips ; 2. Barley; 3. Oats: or, 1. Fallow; 

 2. Wheat; 3. Oats: in either of these courses, or 

 in any other, where the oats follow another crop 

 of corn, the profit of- them must he small. What 

 comparison with sowing clover with the barley, 

 which will pay far more profit, and at the same 

 time prepare, in the best manner, for that most 

 beneficial crop, wheat ? What but a fallow, or a 

 fallow crop, can succeed the oats? How unprofi- 

 table, compared to the clover system ! 



For these reasons, I cannot but recommend that 

 oats should be considered in the same light as 

 barley, and never sown unless the land be in proper 

 order for barley, or to sow them after a fallow 

 crop, and clover with them, in the same manner as 

 barley. 



The question between barley and oats depends, 

 first, on the relative price. Oats may be expected 

 to yield from one to two quarters per acre more 

 than barley ; it is therefore easy for the farmer to 

 calculate at given prices which grain will pay him 

 best : but it is not to be forgotten, that barley 

 leaves the soil in much better heart than oats leave 

 it, as they take much more from it than barley, 

 being a more exhausting crop. 



OATS AFTER TURNIPS, & c . 

 The observations which have been made on bar- 

 ley, are equally applicable if oats be sown. And 

 the farmer should, in the distribution of his farm, 

 consider which of these two crops is likely to pay 



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