16 FARMER’S CALENDAR.[MARCH.

The business of this, and the ensuing month, 1s various and pressing, and requires, particularly on a large farm, the best arrangement, and the full exertion of all the farmer’s force of men and cat- tle, as seeding land is so critical a business, and so much depends on a man’s being prepared to profit by every favourable opportunity. The sowing left unfinished last month, will in Course be first at- tended to, and completed in the present.

Oats.—While I am writing, information has reached me of white oats, of very fine sample, bearing the enormous price of fifty-five shillings per quarter in the London market, in consequence of a demand from various parts of the country. This will stand in the place of a thousand argu- ments for their culture, after the most advanta- geous method. In truth, the jet of the business is this: upon an average of the common culture, and of markets, oats are a losing crop to the far- mer, injuring both his purse and his land, and he had much better purchase than grow them. This will easily appear, from a calculation upon a crop, of from two to four quarters of oats per acre, either following, or to be succeeded’ by another crop of white corn, after the fashion of the old husbandry. But as has already been remarked, oats should stand in their proper place in the course, never without seeds, except they be drilled, and then lucerne very properly accompanies them; nor.ever be put into land which 1s not in perfect good heart. So managed, oats I have always found an advantageous crop; in most situations, greatly before barley, in many conjunctures, supe- rior even to wheat.

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