. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. xuriant at Christmas, tillering like wheat: heili pastures them with ewes ami lambs all the spring, and then shuts them up, and reaps an ample crop earlyin August. The grain is rather longer than that of the white oat, and the colour rather lighter than that ofthe black oat; Mr Bennett received the seed from a friend in Monmouthshire, who he conject
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. xuriant at Christmas, tillering like wheat: heili pastures them with ewes ami lambs all the spring, and then shuts them up, and reaps an ample crop earlyin August. The grain is rather longer than that of the white oat, and the colour rather lighter than that ofthe black oat; Mr Bennett received the seed from a friend in Monmouthshire, who he conjecturesreceived it from Bristol, 50 that it is probably a recent importation. (Country Times, Feb. 8th, and Mr. Bennett) 5131. There arc other varieties, as Churchs oat, the Angus oat, the dun oat, &C, but they are either toolocal or obsolete to require particular notice. In the oat, as in other plants extensively cultivated, newvarieties will always be taking the place of old ones. 51.*52. To procure new varieties adopt the mode by selection, by which, as it appearsabove, the potato and red oat wire brought forward; or proceed systematically by crossimpregnation, as directed for raising new varieties of wheat. Degeneracy, Brown ^. Book VI. OATS. 827 observes, has taken place to a certain extent in the potato oat; but it is presumed thatthe consequences might be removed with ease, were first principles returned to. Tomake a selection of the strongest ears, which carried the purest grain, is not a difficultbusiness ; and were this selection attended to by half a dozen farmers in a district, it isobvious, that the breed, or variety, might be preserved pure and uncontaminated. Ifslovenly farmers were not provided with good seed, it would be their own fault; since,if they would not take the trouble to select and breed for their own use, they mightalways be provided by those who were either better qualified for making the selection, orwere more attentive to the interests of a
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