70 BARLEY. 



they go round, give motion to a sort of cylinder 

 within the box, in which are fixed instruments, 

 like tea-spoons, at proper distances. Under- 

 neath are cutting irons, which form grooves, or 

 drills, to receive the seed, as it is delivered 

 from the spoons; and the process is thus 

 completed with mechanical precision, such as 

 pleases the eye, when the plant issues from the 

 soil. However, the advantages of this contri- 

 vance, on the whole, are not so great, but that 

 most of the English farmers proceed by the old 

 method still. We must now leave the wheat- 

 field for a season. 



BARLEY is a grain and ear more nearly re- 

 sembling wheat than any other grain. The 

 character by which any may distinguish it, is 

 the brush, or beard, consisting of long slender 



