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Article XXVI. 

 An Account of the Cultivation of Siberian Barley, 



[Sent to the Norfolk Society by the Rev. Mr, Howman^ 

 of Bracon in Norfolk; and tranfmitted to the Society 

 at Bath by Thomas Beevor^ efq; of Hethel-Hall.] 



Gentlemen, 



TN confequence of your having invited the mem- 

 bers of the Society to communicate their expe- 

 riments in any branch of hufbandry, I am excited 

 to relate the refult of one which 1 made laft year, 

 in order to form fome judgment of the advantage of 

 cultivating Siberian barley. 



A fmall inclofure, containing 3 acres, i rood, 1 

 perches, which had been under turnips the two pre- 

 ceding years, was fown with common barley, ex- 

 cepting one ridge of land in the middle of it, con- 

 taining 20 perches, which was fown with Siberian 

 barley the fame day. The foil was very dry, and 

 much inclined to a gravel. 



The time of fowing was the 28th of April 1774, 

 and the ilate of the experiment as follows : 



Common 



