19^ 071 Oat Pasture^ 



ricd to the stable, and a crop of turnips taken oft' the 

 ground die same season : the manure was laid on before 

 the corn was sown, but none was given when the turnip 

 seed was put in. 



Another way in which oats fertilize, appears to be 

 from increase of vegetable soil ; this is within the view 

 of every observer ; the remains of the pasture ploughed 

 in, particularly in July and August is speedily decom- 

 posed, its tenderness and moisture aiding the dissolu- 

 tion. But dry stubble and husky roots are difficultly 

 decomposed, nor do they produce so much carbonic 

 or coaliy matter in the soli, which chemists say decom- 

 poses the water, and produce the air required to pro- 

 mote vegetation. As the vegetable is produced from 

 air and water, and not from earth, which seems to be 

 no more than the laboratory where the process of vege- 

 tation commences, and finally serves as a matrix to hold 

 one . part of the plant, while the other parts are raised 

 aloft, in quest of superior aid, to complete the inscru- 

 table operations of the vegetable fabric. 



It has also been enquired, will this process of oat 

 pasture fertilize every where ? it is answered, that 

 where the soil and climate are the same, the effects will 

 be the same also. A description has been given of the 

 soils, where the experiments were made, and are still 

 going on. If experiments of the same nature shall be 

 made upon a different soil, and climate, the result will 

 be different, and more or less favourable, according to 

 circumstances, and for which the practice now men- 

 tioned, cannot in justice be rendered accountable. If 

 iriy shoe fit my foot, I am warranted to say, it will suit 

 a foot 01 the same size, and shape every where ; let no 



