/O BARLEY AFTER TURNIPS, [FEE. 



mer's eye and foot can alone enable him to judge. 

 These operations go off very quickly, and leave the 

 lands, or stitches, in excellent order for the drill - 

 machine to follow, and deposit the barlev-serd ; 

 the farmer, during the whole of these operafior. 

 being as little liable to be thrown out by unfavour- 

 able weather, as it is possible he should be, and 

 much less so, than if he had ploughed the land. 

 Those who are used to attend to the - of til- 



lage on different soils, know well, that loams and 

 clays of v;i:ious degrees of tenacity, if they IK;' 

 been properly formed into lands for winter, and 

 not poached by horses trampling, receive the fro 

 to advantage, and are found with a friable surface in 

 the spring. If rain comes, it dries, and leaves the 

 surface still in good order, and ready for any ope- 

 ration : but plough such land, and turn up the 

 more adhesive bottom, not acled upon by fro 

 and let rain fall on such fresh turned furrows; it 

 remains stiff and saddened ; it does not 1;-. 

 porous again ; the air cannot get into it ; and if 

 drying sharp winds at north-east follow, the fur- 

 rows become longitudinal slices of clod, very dif- 

 ficult to be acted upon by any instrument, and the 

 farmer finds himself in a most unpleasant situation, 

 ITe no more recovers a fine friabl :;d it 



becomes tw< > one whether he lias a 



crop. His only chance is, to have abundance of 

 patience, to wait for favourable weather, and lav 

 rcount to sow very late. The motive for ad- 

 vising him to avoid such spring ploughings, is not 



derived 



