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on a farm, may, with care, soon be obtained. At our 

 annual meetings, I have always, after dinner, exhibited 

 specimens of my mangel wurzel and Swedish turnips, 

 which go round the table. A few years ago, a person from 

 another county liked the turnips so much ihat he put one 

 in his pocket, from which he has raised seed enough for his 

 own use, and to supply some of his neighbours. 



Most farmers, thirty years ago, made a point of sowing 

 seed corn that had grown on a soil different from theirs. 

 At that time, corn not being well winnowed, the seeds of 

 weeds were not got out ; I thought therefore that the 

 custom of changing the seed arose from its being well 

 known that weeds natural to a clay soil, would not grow 

 strong on a light soil, and vice versa. My barley having 

 been always quite free from weeds, and good, I never 

 changed it till I got the Chevalier. As I have lately 

 seen a bolder barley than mine, grown on strong land, 

 from barley had from me, I now think it a good plan 

 to have a change of seed corn. Many farmers of this 

 county grow the American barley. The winter barley 

 has been tried here, but not liked. 



OATS do not need the same good cultivation as barley, 

 and will grow on all soils, but are known to be a 

 much more exhausting crop than barley. If a full crop 

 of oats stand till the whole is quite ripe, a great quantity 

 of the very best of the corn will be shed on the land. 

 The skinless oat is an extraordinary grain ; I have this 

 year got in the produce of eight bushels sown, but 

 whether they will prove a useful grain, I cannot at 

 present say. The few I grew last year, proved strong 

 in the straw, and yielded well. 



WHEAT is a chief dependence to pay rent, but should 

 never be sown if the land is not in a fair state for it. 

 The best preparatory crop is clover, the decayed roots 

 of which furnish much good nourishment for the growing 

 wheat. [ have often sown wheat after mangel wurzel, 

 and early carted-off Swedes, and have had as good crops 

 as after clover. I have not done this of late years, 

 because wheat has not fetched so good a price as barley. 



