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foil before he fow, on a large fcale, more 

 than fix bufhels of oats an acre. 



III. PRODUCE. Ten quarters of oats an 

 acre have been grown on a piece of many 

 acres. Seven or eight quarters an acre 

 throughout a large farm has not unfre- 

 quently been produced. One Vale farmer, 

 laft year, fold and fent to market a thoufand 

 quarters of oats. 



IV. THRASHING. A mod eccentric prac- 

 tice has of late years taken place with re- 

 fpect to the thrafhing of oats : not in barnF, 

 or under cover, as heretofore, and as the ope- 

 ration is ftill carried on in every other part 

 of the Ifland j but in the field, or the (lack- 

 yard, IN THE OPEN AIR ! 



This new method of thramin,g oats pro- 

 bably took its rile from the ordinary one of 

 thrafhing rape in this Diftrict (a procefs 

 which will be explained by and by) ; the 

 oats, at the outfet, being all thraflied on cloth. 

 But, now, I find it is common to thraih them 

 on apiece of plainykvW or other level ground 

 without a, cloth ! it having been found, from 

 experience, that if pigs and poultry be 

 employed to pick up the few which the 

 C 3 broom, 



