OAT. 
when it is intended to be pets afer ge tares, early 
peas, or fuch other crops as do not off the ground 
inni une, on “oils that are too oe 
as &P 
ce i ftard fallow, laying the land up into ridges proper 
for being fown in the pened fpring. Or when, after fuch 
o late to admit of battard fallow. 
ie feed in. her and is inclined to be 
beft mode is probably | that of ploughing he isi on ae i 
per ridges, in the autumn, in r to its being rendered 
Y 
1* Mr. Donaldfon ftates, that whatever may have — 
i 
rrow is afforded. ae 
fome di hedaae it is, “he afferts, the common abe to plough 
he lands over that are intended for oats, in the 
e 
fome places is ee i farmers rib-furrowing, and in others 
flob-furrowing ; it is performed by fli over t e furrows 
at the diftance of from twelve to eighteen inches ae each 
other on the unbroken land, In this — "one-half of the 
a alates part of the land remains unmoved, and the furrows 
being thrown on it, much furface is expofed, and the = 
greatly improved, at the fame time that the root weeds a 
deitroyed. If this procefs be accom mplifhed in the aot 
and in the autumnal feafon, the foil is con- 
and heavy kind. On whic 
penaiee has caren that 
doubt but that, e land’s undergo 
thin poor foils, i i the pro 
turfy material is Siete, and when the prices “of other 
forts of grain are low, it may e advantageous to have re- 
courfe to ne ufe of manure, as By a means is probable 
ight b wn. 
writer 
ever by much the be e to Moe 
the crop may be well effablithed before e ie weather com- 
mences. And befides, there may be a greater chance of the 
and when 
be more ely prevented. 
be injured by very ee winters, it can feldom be fafe to put 
it in in fad igor efpecially in the —— parts of the 
ifland ; in the fouthern diftriis it may be done with 
piepeety in bees cafes, as ane the land is of a ve 
dry and friable nature, large crops having been afferted | by 
Mr. Middleton to have been died in es way in combina- 
tion with tares in fome inftances. But 
kind of crop mag ie e fow 
vifes that, in January, i e he youn 
farmer thould e examine aos ae as = tie i eae ah 
oats, that any peers of 
y and March, 
aan efeaping the ravages of the worm that often — 
uch crops ; : 
feafons by fowing a oats at this per The temper of 
the foil muft gove it is cy that he fhould 
now that oats A fo early fucceed well. And this has 
late Mr. Macro, of Suffolk, 
chi, a deta ied i in the Annals o 
firft fat 
Wi 
The 
am 
soot half 2 buthel leis feed, In the beginning of Marc 
he ploughed the meet part of a piece of land a fecond 
the middle of that month, fowed it, a 
had three clean ear 
The produce of the four acres was as below: 
Cc. BP 
On that fown in December - - 8 2 0 
anuar - 8 3 2 
February - - 6 2 1 
March - - 6 2 2 
On feed deducted : 
Cc. B. P. 
On that fown in December - - 4 2 0 
—— Jan - 7 3 2 
February - - 5 2 3 
March - - 5 3 2 
It is added that ae fown in December, though it came 
firft, loft fo much of its plant, by the 
that it was ex edted it muit have been 
ploughed up, and fown again in the {pring ; but web) 
the plants that were alive beginning to flourifh very early, he 
o be a full plant, nor did 
and ie pees 
well. Thofefown in January and February both loft re 
of their plants, fo that fown in rch, with the leaft 
feed, — the fulleft shes evenett plan 
duced to a the following tna, from 
two very capital farms in Kent and Etiex, great "cr0p8 of 
oats, fown as early as Chriitmas week, and from pe oa 
