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with th* gfcrin to fteep in clean water* let it lid 

 covered with it for at leaft 24 hour*. When ths 

 ground is fo dry as at prefent, and no likelihood 

 of rain for ten days, it is better to lie 36 hours. 

 Sow the grain wet from fteeping, without any 

 addition of powdered quick-lime, which, though 

 often recommended in print, can only poifon the 

 feed, fuck up part of its ufeful moifture, and burn 

 the hands of the fower. The feed will fcatter 

 well, as clean water has no tenacity— -only the 

 fower mud put in a fourth or a third more feed 

 in bulk than ufual of dry grain, as the grain is 

 fwelled in that proportion: harrow it in as quickly 

 as poflible after it is fown * and though not ne- 

 ceflary, give it the benefit of frefh furrow, if 

 convenient. You may expect it up in a fortnight 

 at fartheft. 



My fteeped barley, fown on the 10th and uth 

 of April, is now from four to fix inches high| 

 and what was fown on Saturday the 19th and 

 Monday the 21ft of April, on a ley holm, above 

 a month ploughed, is this day, or in the fpace of 

 a fortnight, fairly come up 5 and the headrridges, 

 efpecially one that was recently ploughed, though 

 fown on the 25th, is beginning to appear. But 

 the deeped feed running fhort, my overfeer fowed 

 about a rood on the freih ploughed head-ridge, 



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