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of fowing oats is generally made fubfcrvient to 

 that of fowing barley ; fome being fown be- 

 fore ; others after bai ley-feel : an uncommon 

 circumftance. I have feen oats fown in June •, 

 and it is remarked by men of obfervation, 

 that oats fown late, grow ripe earlier than bar- 

 ley fown at the fame time. This Ibews that 

 the Norfolk-oats arc of a quick-ripening kind. 

 Tht quantity of feed from four ro five bufhels 

 an acre. 



I met with one reiiiarkable inftance refpc(ft- 

 ing the culture of oats. The furface of a 

 piece of groundj which had been fown feveral 

 days with oats, but which were not yet up, 

 was " run," by heavy rains, into a batter ; and 

 baked by fucceeding dty days to a cruft ; fo 

 that the owner defpaircd of a crop : he there- 

 fore, as an expedient, plowed the ground ; 

 turning the oats, notwithftanding they had 

 begun to vegetate, under a fleet furrow. The 

 iuccefs was beyond expectation. 



This operation, however, was not altogether 

 a game of hazard : there being, it feems, a 

 farmer, fomewhere in the Diftrict, who ufes it 

 in common practice ; plowing in his oa4:s v.'ith 

 a very fleet fiirrow; and, after they have 



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