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a. fortnight. Application ; fold for malting, or fome- 

 times made into meal, of which a great quantity was 

 ufed in the dear feafons of 1800 and 1801 ; the pro- 

 duce much the fame as of wheat. 



BARLEY. 



I ft. Preparation.-r~-Ba.rlcy is often prepared for by a 

 potatoe fallow j when that is not the cafe, it has gene- 

 rally two or three ploughings ; if the ground has not 

 been richly manured with marie, lime, or fand, dung 

 is the ufual manure ; the quantity varies from forty to 

 fixty car-loads per acre, which is fometimes ploughed 

 in, and fometimes fpread on the ground, the feed fown, 

 and both dung and feed covered from the furrows. 

 From this method the produce is often, great, but often 

 weedy. 



2d. Sort. In the eaftern part of the county the long- 

 eared, or two-rowed barlqy, is always fown; in the 

 weflern it is generally the four-rowed : the firft is 

 efteemed the moft profitable for the malfter ; the latter 

 I take to produce more to the farmer ; but it is very 

 troublefome to drefs for the market, as the awns ad- 

 here clofely to the grain, and require a fecond threlhing 

 to get them off. 



3d. Seed; quantity about five bufliels j in Lecalc 



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much more, two and one-half hundred weight being 



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