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The land surely ought to receive a seed plough- ing for oats, and even two, if the time could be spared, as much depends on the fineness of the tilth. The method of casting them also into seed- channels, or seams, purposely drawn with the plough, is advantageous, and a saving of seed. Four bushels is the common allowance to an acre, but Ihave seen very large crops from three. It will pay well to have the seed very clean and cu- tious. Oats are generally sown before barley, except in Hertfordshire, and one or two other places; but it is probably an indifferent matter, and the mere child of custom.

Furze.—Where wood is scarce, this may be cultivated to great advantage, on poor or exhaust- ed soils of any kind which want rest. It may be sowed with oats, or other spring crops, about a

_ gallon of seed per acre, which may be had of the

seedsmen in London, or in Sussex, if it be not found in the neighbourhood. I believe it is usual in Sussex to let the furze remain three years on the land.

Prasr.—On light soils, it is most advantageous always to sow white pease, since they will an- swer the end of Cattle-feed equally well with grey, and if the sample be fine and good boilers, fetch a much higher price at market. It is not com- mon to horse-hoe these, being apt to receive da- mage by the treading of the cattle, and the rows need not be farther apart than to admit conveni- ently the hand-hoe, by which they require to be well earthed-up. They are sowed throughout March and April, as the land can be prepared,

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