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3d. Never fleeped. 



4th. Seed t quantity foivn. About ten Winchefter 

 bufhels to the Irifh acre ; Mr. Chrifty thinks he has 

 better crops by lowing eleven bufhels. 



5th. Time of fiwing. As early in fpring as the 

 ground will admit of; the earlier they are fown, in ge- 

 neral the better the crop. 



6th. Culture whilji growirjg.-~-Pu\\'mg out thirties, and 

 other large weeds. 



7th. Harvejl. Generally a week or ten days after 

 barley -, treated in the field in all refpefts like barley, 

 and flacked at home. 



8th. Produce. Moil various ; being every gradation 

 from thirty to one hundred bufhels per acre. The 

 latter, upon rich ground lately limed, not uncommon, 

 or after a crop of potatoes, on land newly broken upj 

 from fixty to feventy bufhels the average upon good 

 land, with the ufual preparation one ploughing. 



pth. Threjhing. The price of threfhing is. id. per 

 bole of ten Winchefter bufheh. 



loth. Mamtfafture into Bread. Baked into thin cakes 

 on the griddle, with water and fait ; I never have met 

 with it baked with barm; fomethnes carraway-feeds 

 are mixed with it, and fometimes it is mixed with but- 

 ter ; however, it is moftly ufed, and, I believe, pre- 

 ferred fimply, as already mentioned. There is a va- 

 riety of it, called a bonaught, which is a thick round 

 cake, baked on the clear turf coal, and often ufed oa 

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