On the Growth, &c. of the Northern naked Barley. 355 



On the l2ih of May, IS09, I sowed five acresof it after 

 a mixed crop of turnips and cabbages, which were fed off 

 bv sheep in the latter end of April and the first week in 

 May. This crop, being very abiindantj kept the sheep longer 

 on the ground, which was on this account in some degree 

 better manured than my other land. 



Although this barley was so late Sown, it was ready to 

 cut a week sooner than my English barley, and came to 

 maturity a month sooner; which is doubtless an advantage 

 to the husbandman, as the crop of barley on the latest-fed 

 turnip land often suffers. 



OJ the produce I can only speak comparatively, as it was 

 not large; a long drought in the summer burnt our liaht- 

 land crops, and this suffered with the rest. I had butlwo 

 quarters of English barley per acre ; of the naked, four quar- 

 ters one bushel. It can)e up well, and had a luxuriant ap- 

 pearance during the dry season. 



I sent a bushel of each sort of barley to a neicrhbourino- 

 inill, requesting each might be ground and dressed into one 

 sort of flour; the bran only being taken out ; and an accu- 

 rate account of the weight of each sent to me, which was 

 as under: 



Pecks, lbs. lbs. 



Foreign — Flour 2 8\ 36 

 Bran ] 3/°'" 17 



total 53 when returned from the mill. 



English — Flour 1 10 7 24 

 Bran 1 ej""" 20 



total 44 when returned from the mill. 



Each bushel of barley lost 4 lbs. in the process of its 

 manufacture. It will be observed, that the foreian barley 

 made 12 lbs. more of flour per bushel than the^Enolish, 

 which IS within 2 lbs. of seven pecks per quarter; and at 

 the computed value of 2i. 6d. per peck, amounts to 1 Is. 6d. 

 worth ot flour more per quarter than was obtained from 

 English barley of the last year's growth. 



In the course of the winter f malted six quarters: it 

 worked but indifferently on the floors, having many hard 

 corn amongst it ; but this I consider as the defect of almost 

 all the barley of the year 1 809. Its swell in the cistern 

 was much greater than English barley, being from six quar- 

 ters equal to our usual steeping of twenty quarters. I had 

 also a large increase in the making, having nearly two bu- 

 •hels m six quarters, which is much more than it is usual 

 to obtain from the best barley on our plan of making malt. 

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