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a heavy roller, which will prevent the fun and air 

 from penetrating the ground to the injury of the 

 roots. This rolling before it branches out, will alfo 

 caufe it to tiller into a greater number of ftalks; fo 

 that if the plants be thin, the ground will be thereby 

 filled, and the ftalks ftrengthened. 



If the blade grows too rank, as it fometimes 

 will in a warm wet fpring, mowing is a much 

 better method than feeding it down with fheep, 

 becaufe the fey the takes off only the rank tops; 

 but the fheep, being fond of the fweet end of the 

 ftalk next the root, will often bite {o clofe as to 

 injure its future growth. 



By attending to what I here recommend, many 

 of our farmers ufually get forty bufhels of barley 

 per acre from land of no extraordinary quality. 

 On fome that is rich, I have had fifty-two bufhels 

 without manure; but I never fow more than ten, 

 and often only eight pecks of feed per acre. 



lam, &c. 



J. S. 



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