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contrary. I have known some men in Eng- 

 land maintain that poor land ought to be 

 sown with a large quantity of seed : but 

 let them go to America, and they will soon 

 be convinced of the contrary ; for, of all 

 the rich land in Gennesee, Tennesce, Al- 

 leghany county, Miamese, &c. there is not 

 any will bear more seed on an acre than 

 four pecks ; nor do I believe the highest 

 produce to be above fifteen bushels per 

 acre : a great part of those lands will 

 not bear wheat at all ; and, from all the 

 information I can obtain, they are much 

 of the same nature as the other cultivated 

 parts of America, but fresh land. There is 

 a sameness in all the American land I ever 

 saw — none nearly so good as in England. 

 Barley is very frequently sown in the 

 autumn, which generally yields the greatest 

 produce. The sort of barley sown in the 

 fall is termed in Great-Britain big or beer. 

 The long-eared barley is called spring- 

 barley. As to battledore or sprat barley, I 

 never saw any ; nor I do not believe there 



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