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state, when just beginning to shoot ; and, by this means, 

 to backen or destroy it. He believed that it was the 

 ploughing, and not the oats, which produced the effect. 

 But, having a large dairy, fed in the winter with oats 

 and corn, ground together in certain proportions, he 

 was of the sect of oat farmers ; and of course found 

 reasons to justify the practice. An oat fallow, he allow- 

 ed, required more dung than common, to restore what 

 the oats had exhausted. But he said, '^ with plenty of 

 lime and dung one can farm as he pleases." However 

 true this may be, the question still remains to be solved. 

 — What is the best course for those to pursue, who 

 either have, or have not, this plenty of lime and dung ? 

 For myself I answer — not to sow an exhausting crop of 

 oats, to be succeeded by another culmiferous* crop 



former. Its head contains a multitude oi cloved seeds : and, on 

 this account most resembles the bulbs of the alliian or gar- 

 lick. But these seeds are entirely different from those of the 

 onion. It is destructively prolifick ; lor several bulbs will be 

 formed from one clove of the head. 



There is an old tradition, that the Swedes first imported 

 and sowed it here, for early pasture, — But I have always 

 believed it to be a spontaneous native product ; the compa- 

 nion, if not the offspring of poverty ; originating in worn and 

 exhausted lands, Swedes having been early settlers, their 

 lands were the first exhausted j and in them the garlick made 

 its first appearance, of course. 



R. P. 



^ Cidmiferous crops are those of grain enclosed in chaffy 

 husks. They are fibrous rooted and exhausting. They give 

 little to the earth ; and draw from it the stores of vegetable 

 ibod, which it had collected. 



