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with unfteeped barley, where not a plant as yet 

 appears ; but, on the contrary, the grain may be 

 found in the foil as dry, hard, and wrinkled on 

 the (kin, as when taken from the granary. In 

 this uncommonly dry feafon, I need not point out 

 other inftances of grain much longer fown, not as 

 yet come up. I mail only add, that I have uni- 

 formly followed this method for above a dozen 

 years with unvaried fuccefs. 



WILLIAM COPLAND, 



Blackwood, near Dumfries, 

 May 3, 1783. 



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