OAT. 
formed by the gentlemen a occupied thofe ‘ine te es 
on 
He ge- 
favourable for the experiment, as the weathe at 
Chriftmas for fowing, and the froft in the,{pring not evere 
$ 
fown the day after Chriftmas day ; the ot 
wee Five buthels p wn 
t, and the fame oats: the fort a {mall white oat, 
yee Res sith webs were ripe and cut one 
; they w arvefted equally well, 
He had a rood 
weight were as follo 
Winch. Buth. Qs. P 
Early fown : 22 = per acre - II 0 
Late fown - - 19 ditto 9 
And the weight per Winchefter buthel as foon as threfhed : 
Early fown - 442\b. 
Late fown - 424]b. 
The crop was very good. The land chats potatoes the 
preceding year, 450 bufhels per acre, and was not manured 
for that of the oat crop: it had before that bee in Se for 
fix or feven years. The foil a red loam nclined to 
think that the early sil will anfwer heie, as aie field is 
very high and much ex 
It would feem that there pa mae li ttle doubt from the to- 
Y pe- 
ani in all late fituations it 
much 
Sn g tothe difference df he circumftances scr have he 
ftated above ; but on foils of middling quality, Dr. Dickfon 
or the more early 
odes of eeseeer are ado a 
of the fouthern dilrias, the Poland oat is fown at 
the re > of about four bufhels the acre for the firft fowings ; 
and it has been found in praétice that the_ earlieft fown 
crops conftantly afforded the moft perfec fample, and in ge- 
neral the moft abundant produce. With the oats, clover 
ing up ina ae 
fc 
manner. It is added,'that the ufe of fe drill has ae been fo 
much praétifed with this fort of aie as to fully afcert 
the utility of it; nor has that of dibbling been tried with 
that fort of attention oe is pcre to determine the pro. 
priety of it. Accordin r. Young, Mr. Walker, near 
Belvoir Cattle, Lincolnfbire, ae eight buthels of oats per 
acre, and finds the crop much better, and the fam le more 
equal than with lefs feed ; 
chap than that of recommending the drill hufbandry as 
faving feed; he drilis five bufhels of oats per acre on his 
e fame practical writer further ftates, that as 
this kind of grain is fuppofe be more liable than moft 
others to degenerate, by being too long continued on the 
fame land ; as been the practi 
a practice may i ren Sales hha 
attention, moft of the different forts of oats are ale jai 
of being greatly i ais both in the quality and appearance 
or the grain or lamp 
It is alfo added, that where this fort of grain is culti- 
vated on fuch lays as are nearly broken up, there may fre- 
q 
in the ftate of » both fr e deftructive attacks of 
infeé&ts, and the foil becoming too open, and porous, 
from the decay of the grafly mate for the fupport of 
the plants. The firft may proba es _ eafure be ob- 
fuggette a ao in on ae broken 
upland, or what in fome diftri€ts is termed a ka breec 
For to fow oats on a lay newly broken up, efpecially if 
fuch ground ha many years in grafs, is at all ti 
I n 
with oats a fini ly, ‘ha er been aa 
up (ae manths before, and c in feed w 
large two-horfe co. oe teen as pofiible clofed the 
i with a five-horfe roll, fo ce the ground feemed to lie 
clofe as one could defire; but the dry frofty weather 
coe mentioned, ae in for a month afterwards, —— 
the — very porous, and the foil was ‘become 
fpread over the whole clofe, and although he omitted no 
oppor 
