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craw i is tall 8 
fodder. 
cody, 
t gives 
. The plum ery apt 
the husks by the 8 of sunny winds 
and boisterous latitu 
by means of the land being Sicaghed in the 2 win 
li og and 
Moistur 
by reason of the een state of the land in 
The month of March is the general season of * 
Oats over the greater par art of the British Isles. Some 
ed i in 
at distances between the bags as the quantity of lan 
i hen the field is of much length, two 
d 
require. 
Pe a of bags will be convenient and necessary, and | 
distances between the rows, and from 
the * the field. The wheels of the carts that con- 
make ruts in the r 
will fall, 
which the 
an unsighüly row of the braird. It is 8 
ferable to y y to. the field —— 
be sown, o of a ni is 
— i 
lays 
crop 
seed ‘i 
n | products of the decomposin 
8. 
has now fixed the Oat as the en 
| and i in levellin 
Bi, 
is also acquired and retained | 
the 
| ghatehed with 
crop t by the scythe, the swathes lie 
When the rp cut by — els ofthe 
a ea Pe to seer carer tron cremains 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
en of course not so valuable ten | ten he necessary pabulum both in 
| kind si K until the 4 of The plant — 
erminations 
r substances, It is 
necessary he allu vium ty — by the above 
mentioned modes ba 44 
er germination è land. 
The —.— ender ination of the 
Tie rm furrows tha 
underlie the athe; where pepe ly 
ut the time of the Oats being fully besied. bui | 
ode, stn strong, t the land senei Ay? rolled with a weight 
of one ton, field, as the sides of 
urrows are completely hit yy this method; and 
breadth of the ridges may not be an exact multiple of 
the width 8 the roll, time will be lost in going along 
i Vered 
objections. This rolling is beneficial in closing 
surface of the ground * a attacks of drought— 
the roots of the in the 
shadows the surface so Completely thn noo 
walk in the fur- 
is means 
nd cut. 
In latitudes, and under wet and la 
cold 
Oats are sown on the green crop fallo inthe lace of 
removed, and is 
hay, 
s0 
t, and the 
is | perative, daa os deformities appear among the Closed | after 
ose. | whic the finish 
ed result of the labours of fal- 
husk of 5 wholly 
ge of the stem, on the 
become 
the early. cutting, an n 
in in the size or weight © the pickles, merely by allowing 
the | the husks to holly filled, so’ se a ee of the 
crop i shrivelling time 
purpose 
than also 
ts ; | from the straw, and winnowed fi 
purposes 
by flails on wooden foo 
or use 
tione 
f use of Oats in Britain i is for feedin 1 
and ea with a small mixture of of Beans. 
a 
northern counties of En 
used as human food in two ways— 
to porridge or hasty Sopa with water 
2 baked into thin cakes on a flat tiron on girdle. 
groun 
the eloddy er for 955 action of the : 
0 
el the Oat plants over- 
be 
ö ` amply shown by the ru addy com exons and the robust 
e | furrows or not strike the sides at all. And as the a nd h. 
er 9 rn people. bably 
— te may have e very co considerable 
K- 
will very much help to continue my old- 
tablished molti, e most recent analysis of Oats, 
by Da, sas of ob of Edinburgh College, —4 in che 
of starch, 5.8 of satel a n 0 pan) 
11.8 in (bran), a — 4 
umen, — — i 
be the * oN proves that 
r sas dihar iih y substantial to de — — 
of ritain 
perienced with 9 
amount of vi exerei 
deney of the food to emen ascescent on the stomach. 
Oats is in boing eyrin 190% 
rses in England and of 
b amado that nowhere can there plagaes 
filled, And 
of the 
an 
e | growing 
of keeping 
the sheaves that stand upright — 
: e 
tes, | such a 
The best quality at “Oats is produced in 9 
here the soils are gigs. te partially 
timate cool or erately 1 Se 
experie 
2 the 5 3 of daily anure 
yet known ean be d with decomposing vegetable 
ing | matter, gor for the 2 of aetion, 
and durable effects. Tus e soluble parts are 
a 1 and the earthy substances remain for 
ton, to add to the staple of the = 
t is ia iy undeniable e that the crops 0 
and dene 
Protssor Norton, in the Highs 
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