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with more facility. Sowing under furrow has the ad- 

 vantage of imparting to the feed more moifture than 

 the iifual mode, and certainly protects it better 1 from 

 the depredations of birds, &c. 



5th. Steeping though not cuftomary for barley, 

 night probably be ufeful in dry feafons. In a letter 

 to the Bath fociety this method of preparing the feed 

 is mentioned with high encomiums ; the fleep, water 

 taken from a dunghill ; great care ought certainly to 

 be taken after the fleeping, to prevent any of the feed 

 from lying on the furface, which would infallibly fpoil 

 it, after being brought nearly to a ftate of vegetation 

 by the fteep. 



6th. No cnlture is given whil-ft growing, except 

 faking out the larger weeds. 



7th. ffarveft fometimes as early as the latter end 

 of Auguft, but generally through the month" of Sep- 

 tember, and in backward years as late as the firft week 

 in October. The grain all ftooked in the field ; ten 

 Cleaves ftanding, and two to cover, compofe a ftook. 

 Grain of every kind is brought home and flacked as 

 foon as fit ; for in this country it will not keep in 

 barns, until it gets completely dry in that iituation. 



8th. Tlirejtnn^ except in two inftances above-men- 

 tioned, is performed in the ufual way ; when- barley is 

 threftied by the bulk, eight bufhels are reckoned equal 

 to ten of oats, and paid for accordingly. Four-rowed 

 barley is not fo eafily feparated from the awns as the 



two-rowed ; 



