IV 



INTRODUCTION. 



" Indian corn prepares the ground well for barley, by 

 rendering It mellow, and deflroying the natural growth of grafs 

 and weeds. After gathering the corn, and removing the ftalks, 

 manure fliould be carted on during the winter, or early in the 

 fpring ; fpread the manure, plough it in, and make the earth 

 as mellow as pofTible : then fow the barley early, at the rate 

 of at leaft two bufhels to an acre." 



" If the field is to be brought into grafs, fow grafs-feed with 

 the barley, as Is cuftomary with wheat, remembering always, 

 that clover is the mofl fure.'* 



" Cut the crop when ripe, and not fooner ; the lefs it is 

 cxpofed, after cutting, even to the dew, the better, and 

 heavier is the grain. This is the fyflem adopted in the ftate of 

 Rhode-Ifland, where the farmers frequently cut about forty 

 bufhels on an acre." 



" On the wefl end of Long-Wand, the farmers that raife 

 barley, plough the flubble under as foon as the crop is off, 

 check vegetation by repeated ploughing and harrowing, until 

 the time of fowing wheat, and by this management procure a 

 good crop of wheat, In fucceflion to that of barley : But, in 

 this cafe, it is neceffary to give the ground a larger quantity of 

 manure." 



" The committee are at a lofs to fay, whether barley will 

 anfwer on new ground, as the growth of it has, in their belief, 

 been chiefly confined to old cultivated land. From experience, 



