192 On Oat Pasture, 



tread it into the soil; and sometimes dry seasons are also 

 highly injurious to the clover. When the clover is sown 

 with the second sowing of oats, the same care is re- 

 quired to prevent its being trodden in by rhe live stock, 

 for this purpose it is always necessary to have a spare 

 field of old pasture, which they will feed upon in wet 

 weather, and which they would not relish in dry wea- 

 ther. To guard against a dry season it is most proper 

 never to pasture the oats, where the clover is sown, so 

 much, as to prevent the herbage of the oats from giving 

 shade to the clover. So soon as a field will produce 

 clover luxuriantly, there is no farmer at a loss how to 

 make his field as rich as he pleases and having got 

 tliem into good heart, it will be his interest to put them 

 in such rotation, as shall increase the vegetable soil and 

 consequent fertility oF his fields. 



It is almost unnecessary, to mention, what will make 

 its way to the understanding of every farmer, viz. The 

 many advantages gained from treating his barren field 

 in this way. 



1st. Early and late sweet pasture from such fields, 

 which otherwise produced a scanty course herbage un- 

 palatable to every animal. 



2d. Immediate reward for his labour ; the stock are 

 supported by it within two months from the time seed 

 is sown : the two returns give six months green food ; 

 he is not however to depend upon it for all his summer 

 pasture. 



3d. Perhaps it is one of the most effectual means to root 

 out garlick, because what have escaped the plough in 

 the spring, are eaten down with the pasture from the 

 first sowing of oats and prevented from going into seed : 



