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realized. If the above-mentioned crop were fold 

 at only nine-pence a peck, the farmer would be 

 well paid for his labour.] 



Article XXXVII. 



An Account ef the Culture of Siberian Barley^ 

 in 1774* 



[Tranrmitted by the Norfolk Agriculture Society.] 



THE intention of the Norfolk Society being 

 to afcertain thepofitive produce of the grain, 

 and alfo the comparative produce in the two me- 

 thods of fowing in broadcall, and of fetting by the 

 dibble, the following experiments were made:— 



The ground chofen for this purpofe was a fandy 

 loam, containing, exclufive of hedges, i acre, 3 

 roods, 6 perches, 1 9 fquafe yards, ftatute meafure. 

 It had been in grafs three years at the autumn of 



1772, v/hen it was broken up. In the fummer of 



1773, it bore oats, and in autumn the fame year 

 had three ploughings ; in the fpring of 1774, it was 

 ploughed three times more. Being then in good 

 order, it was divided into two parts. 



No. I. 



