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after are very weak, and it is a year before 

 they recover their ftrength. 



THE beft method is to prepare the feed 

 three weeks before the time of fowing, 

 which then may be three weeks longer 

 deferred, by which time the hard frofrs 

 will be .over, and the feed will be as far 

 advanced as if it had been in the ground in 

 a mild feafon. 



To prepare the feed, mix an equal quan- 

 tity of dry fand and frefh grains from the 

 brewhoufe ; rub them well together, lay 

 it in a heap four or five days, then rub 

 and mix the feed with it, and put it in a 

 little box or garden-pot, covering it over 

 an inch at top with fand, and fet it in a 

 dry airy place ; in fix days examine it, and 

 if it inclines to mouldinefs, rub all .over 

 again, and it will require no further trou- 

 ble, but will be fprouted, and in good or- 

 4er for fowing in three weeks, 



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