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In the choice of your feed it is needful to ob- 

 ferve, that the bed is of a pale lively colour, and 

 brightifh cad, without any deep rednefs, or black 

 tinge at the tail. If the rind be a little fhrivelled, 

 it is the better: for that flight flirivelling proves 

 it to have a thin (kin, and to have fweated in the 

 mow. The necefllty of a change of feed, by not 

 fowing two years together what grew on the fame 

 foil, is not in any part of hufbandry more evident 

 than in the culture of this grain, which, if not 

 frequently changed, will grow coarfer and coarfer 

 every fucceeding year. 



It has generally been thought that feed-barley 

 would be benefited by deeping; but liming it 

 has, in many inflances, been found prejudicial. 

 Sprinkling a little foot with the water in which 

 it is deeped, has been of great fervice, as it will 

 fecure the feed from infects. In a very dry feed- 

 time, barley, that has been wetted for malting, 

 and begins to fprout, will come up fooner, and 

 produce as good a crop as any other. 



If you fow after a fallow, plough three times at 

 lead. At the fird ploughing, lay your land up 

 in fmall ridges, and let it remain fo during the 

 winter, for the frod lo mellow it; the fecond 

 ploughing fliould be the beginning of February. 



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