46 Cul treat ion of Arable Land. Barley, Kinds of. 



In the application of the crop, it is either fuffered to remain for the purpofe of 

 feed, cut and ufed green for cattle, or ploughed under as a manure. In the firft 

 method, the produce is from four or five to feven or eight facks,* which is made 

 ufc of in feeding horfes, fattening hogs, and keeping poultry. If ground, it 

 affords a white flour. In foiling cattle, it may be mown twice in the fummei 

 feafon. When given to milch cows, it is faid to incrcafe the flow of milk in a con- 

 iiderable degree. In feeding it down green by hogs, it has been found to pro 

 duce an inebriating effed upon them.f The quantity of food that it affords in 

 this mode of confumption does not feem to be well afcertained. The method of 

 ploughing it under for the purpofe of manure has been.already noticed in [peaking 

 of manures. 



When cultivated after tares, in Mr. Mofelcy s trials it was found to be highly 

 advantageous as a preparation for wheat, preferving the land, after their removal, 

 from the effects of the fun till the period of the wheat being put in. In Mr. Young s 

 opinion much is effected by .this combination of crops: &quot; a coat of manureis gain- 

 .ed at no expenfe, #he year carried through from Michaelmas to Michaelmas ; and 

 three crops put in, on three ploughing?, viz. tares, buck-wheat, and wheat.&quot; It 

 Is not, he fuppofes, eafy to form a more complete fy ilerrL.J 



Jn particular fituations and circumftances, as where barley or other fpring corn 

 cannot be put in fugicicntly early, t the culture of this plant may be practifed with 

 .great advantage. 



In harvefting it is very liable to fried, of courfe when ripe it is beft to cut it 

 while the dew is upon it, and leave it to dry in the field. In fome cafes it fhould 

 likewife be carted in the dew for the fame reafon. The grain is of a black colour, 

 of courfe cannot be injured in this way. It is moflly ripe about the latter end of 

 September. 



Barley. This is a much lefs hardy fort of grain than either of thofe that 

 have been defcribed ; but from its great utility in the compofition of malt li 

 quors, and in the preparation of various kinds of fpirit, it is extenfively culti 

 vated in fuch diftrids as, from the nature of their foils, are adapted v to its 

 growth. It .may, indeed^ be confidered as the next grain in value to that of 

 wheat. 



There are feveral kinds &amp;lt;of this grain cultivated in particular parts of the kino-, 

 dom, as the fpring or common larky, the long-eared barley, thefprat or battledore 

 barley, the bear or Jyiare barley^ and the big barley. The firft fpecies of bar- 



* Suffolk Report. t Synopfis of Husbandry. J SuffoUc Report 



