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Arlicle XIV. 



On the Cultivation of Barley. 



[By a Gentleman Farmer in Norfolk. 



Gentlemen, £ — m, Jan. 4, 1781. 



THE method of raifing barley is in general 

 fa well underftood, that it may perhaps be 

 thought impertinent in me to offer any thing on 

 that head. But as the gaining a knowledge of the 

 different modes of practice in different counties 

 feems to be one part of your defign, I will take the 

 liberty of fending you a few hints relative to this 

 branch of huibandry. 



The bed foil for barley is that which is dry and 

 healthy, rather light than ftiff, but yet of fufficient 

 tenacity and ftrength to retain the moifture. On 

 this kind of land the grain is always the beft-bodied 

 and coloured, the nimbleft in the hand, and has 

 the thinned rind. Thefe are qualities which re- 

 commend it moil to the maltfter. If the land be 

 poor, it mould be dry and warm ; and when fo, it 

 will often bear better corn than richer land in a 

 cold and wet fituation. 



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