VI 



INTRODUCTION, 



"Barley-ftraw is hearty fodder for horned cattle in the winter. 



" By cultivating barley, the farmer v/ill be enabled, with 

 induftry, to receive his money for a crop in fix or feven months 

 from the time of fowing; the fall of the year being the time 

 for bringing it to market, and the brewers infuring him five 

 Shillings and fix-pence the bulhel, or, if he prefers it, the 

 market price." 



Which being agreed to, the fame was direded to be 

 publilhed. 



By order of the Society, 



S. L. MITCHILL, Secretary. 



Col. John Smith produced the model of a plough-lhare,. 

 according to which it was projected to have that utenfil made of 

 caft iron^ in order to fave expence in husbandry, and come 

 cheaper to farmers than thofe in common ufe, forged from 

 wrought iron ; and Mr. Smith and Judge Hobart were 

 appointed to get feveral cafl for trial. 



Dr. Mitchill prefented to the Society Mr. Kerr*s tranflation 

 of Mr. Berthollet's new method of bleaching by means of the 

 oxygenated muriatic acid ; which procefs has been fmce very 

 faccefsfully applied to the paper manufadure, in Europe, as- 

 appears by a printed book fent from Scotland, part of whofe 

 paper was bleached in that way. The book is in Mr. Mitchill's 

 hands for the infpedion of fuch manufadurers as wifli ta 

 view it. 



