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INTRODUCTION. 



SINCE the publication of the firfl volume of the Society's 

 Tranfadtions in 1792, the objeds for which the aiTociation 

 was formed have been purfued with dihgence. Confiderable 

 proficiency having been made, it has again been judged proper 

 to lay before the pubhc the refult of their inquiries. The 

 Society during the feiTions of 1792 and 1793, continued its 

 meetings in the Senate chamber, in the city of New- York j 

 and on the 29th December, 1792, Mr. G. C. Willet, from the 

 committee appointed for that purpofe, in purfuance of a 

 memorial oftheSociety of Brewers, made the following report 

 on the method of cultivating fummer-barley in the ftate of 

 New- York, after a crop of Indian corn, to wit : 



" In the fall, or early in the fpring, as beft fuits the 

 oeconomy of the farmer, turn under the fward, and keep 

 vegetation down with the harrow until the feafon of planting." 



