20 OATS. 4. 



The particulars which are noticeable in 

 the cultivation of oats in the Vale are, 



1. The foil. 



2. The quantity of feed. 



3. The produce. 



4. A fingular mode of thrafhing. 



I. SOIL. The rich lands in the weflern 

 divifion of the Vale are peculiarly affefted 

 by oats. There have been inftances of fowing 

 them fix or feven years fucceffively on the 

 fame land. This, however, has been where 

 the land has previoufly lain long in grafs. 

 The foil principally a rich fandy loam ; a 

 foil fingularly productive of OATS 5 but not 

 of wheat : which in thefe foils runs too much 

 to ftraw. 



It is therefore highly judicious in the oc- 

 cupiers of them not to attempt wheat. Oats 

 will generally pay much better on fuch foils. 



II. QUANTITY OF SEED. Five or fix 

 b.ufliels, and even a quarter of oats, an acre, 

 are here fometimes fovvn ! On fomc foils it 

 is found, that the more feed, the greater in 

 proportion is the produce. A prudent man, 

 however, ought, in my opinion, to afcertain, 

 by comparative experiments, the extent of his 



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