PRACTICAL TREATISE 



H U S BAN DRY. 



PART III. 



Of the Culture of Spring Corn, Milxet rt«J Rice, Legumi- 

 nous Plants rtw^PoT-HERBs, Flax ^WHemp, Artificial 

 ^«i Natural Grass, and t/je Vine. 



C H A P. I. 



Experiments on Barley, Oats, and Rye. ; 



S E C T. L 



Experiments made -near Bourdeaux, by M. Navarre, Dean of the 



Court of Aids. 



N the thirteenth of December, 1751, M. Navarre 

 fowed four beds, two with wheat, one with lye, 

 and the fourth with barley. The beds were 

 24 feet long, and, with the alleys, 6 feet wide. 

 The grains were fown at the diftance of eight 

 inches from one another ; and each bed had 

 three rows, which were likewife eight inches 

 afunder. 



The wheat appeared long before the rye and barley, and fuffered 

 greatly by infeds, which not only eat numbers of ihoots two or 



P p 2 three 



