24 OATS. 4. 



is nothing compared with the expence of a 

 cloth. 



The ftraw was in every cafe flacked loofe 5 

 to be cue out as hay : the common practice, 

 I underfland, when oats are thrafhed abroad. 



When the ftraw is thus freed from the coih. 

 at harvefl, and is flacked in good order r 'lt 

 takes a heat in flack, and is faid to make ex- 

 cellent fodder. Cattle will fometimes get 

 forward in flefh. upon fuch ftraw alone. 



But this happens in the rich.land quarter 

 mentioned above. And, query, has not a 

 rub foil a fimilar effect upon \\\tjlraw> as it 

 has upon the hay, which is grown upon it ? 

 .The hay of Lincplnfhire will fat large bul- 

 locks, which that of Norfolk would barely 

 jupport. 



The ADVANTAGES held out in favour of 

 this method of thraihiog oats, are thofe of 

 difpatch and the faving of barn room 5 or 

 the faving of carriage. A perfon who had 

 a large quantity of oats upon an off-farm, 

 fome miles from his place of refidence a with- 

 out a barn upon it, gave a {hilling a quarter 

 for thralhing, at barveft; a bufy time. Had 

 not this expedient been practifed, a bam 



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