On Oat Pasture, ^c. 187 



my course. If a new path shall be pointed out, and 

 which has with greater advantage been trodden for seve- 

 ral years, and with a greater number of simple facts 

 to recommend it ; it will be cheerfully followed. Other- 

 wise the course now beaten by some years experience, 

 cannot be abandoned. 



I am most respectfully yours, 



William Young, 



George Clymer, Esc^. 



Vice-President ofthePhilacL Soc, for promoting Agric. 



It is generally acknowledged, that the best land may 

 be reduced to sterility, from an injudicious rotation of 

 crops. It remains in a great measure to be proved, 

 whether a farm, which from bad management had been 

 rendered barren, can be restored to its pristine fertility, 

 by a treatment, not beyond the reach of every farmer, 

 (nor without the farm) who possesses the land, free 

 from incumbrances, which are nearly equal to the sup- 

 posed value of his worn out farm. 



When an enquirer examines the publications of those, 

 who have given the results of their experiments; it ap- 

 pears not only practicable, but easy : frequently how- 

 ever, some circumstance is not mentioned in the com- 

 munication, or some thing not attended to by the reader, 

 who intends to make the same successful experiments, 

 but fails, from the causes stated. 



