325 



England produces a great deal of barley, 

 but cannot produce wheat, even for the use 

 of the inhabitants, who procure their flour 

 from Virginia. The wheat in the Northern 

 States takes the rust, or scab, the same as 

 our mildew. The quantity of seed sown 

 is from three to four pecks per acre of bar- 

 ley. In Virginia the barley is much lighter 

 than in the North, and would not at all be 

 used for malting in England ; nor would 

 it be good to sell for any use whatever. 

 The quantity on an acre is from six to 

 twelve bushels, as the farmers* accounts are 

 given. 



The produce of oats is very small indeed; 

 generally from three to six bushels per acre: 

 the quantity sown from three to four pecks 

 per acre. 



The prodiice of rye is from four to eight 

 bushels per acre : the weight I do not 

 know, but imagine it to be the same as in 

 England, as it has an equally good appear- 

 ance. Rye is reaped with the sickle : bar- 

 ley and oats cradled. 



