crops, 87 
closed peat bog, but well drained, oats growing at 
least .50 bushels per acre. 
Mr. C. thinks oats a very exhausting crop ; but upon 
light land of inferior quality, believes may answer 
better than barley, but should succeed turnips, and be 
laid down with seeds. 
He further complains of oats degenerating in qua¬ 
lity ; says, he lias formerly had Poland oats 10 or i2lb. 
per bushel heavier than can be met with now; and 
thinks premiums should be offered to the merchants 
for importing seed-oats of superior quality. 
The oats universally preferred here are the white 
oats, Dutch or Poland. A sort is known here, and has 
made its way in many parts of the kingdom, under the 
name of Potatoe-oats, the name said to be derived from 
having originally come over in a cargo of potatoes; 
it is a good white oat, bolder and larger than the com¬ 
mon Dutch oat. The culture of oats in this county is 
not, I believe, greater than for its own consumption, 
being seldom grown upon the rich or fertile lands, the 
average produce may be reckoned 3b bushels per acre, 
and the seed sowm 6 bushels. 
Pease are cultivated in the fields, but upon a small 
scale; nor does the crop in general seem to answer 
here so well as grain or other pulse. In the present 
} r ear, 1807> there has been an almost total failure, a 
ten-acre piece, harvested near Evesham, was shewn me 
by’ the owner, which he estimated would not produce 
him more than 6 bushels per acre; the stubble was 
working as a partial fallow for wheat, the crop bad 
been drilled, but owing to sudden rain had been pre¬ 
vented hoeing, and became smothered with weeds; 
other pea-crops bad been tut as fodder for horses; but 
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