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His barley feed he fhifts from foil to foil, 

 in the fame manner as wheat. 



The culture of barley here is excellent. 

 They plough the land in Marchy (but this 

 iliould be in Otlober,) in May dung it, 

 twenty load to an acre, twenty-eight bufli- 

 t\s per load. In June plough it in. The 

 land then lies till September, when it is 

 ploughed again, and arched up, and fo lays 

 for the winter. In March it is ploughed 

 down, one half, or two bufliels per acre of 

 feed being then turned in, and the other 

 half, or two budiels more, harrowed in at 

 top : This management yields fcven quar- 

 ters per acre on an average. It certainly 

 is mol]; excellent hufbandry ; and the cir- 

 cumftance of fpreading the dung on the 

 fallow, and mixing it well with the foil by 

 the fucceeding plough ings, preferable, I 

 apprehend, to laying it on in the winter 

 before fowing, which alfo depends on the 

 coming of fliarp frofts. 



Lucerne, Mr. Pemiy has cultivated, and 

 with good fuccefs. He fowed two acres 

 in drills in 176 1, twelve inches afundcr; 

 the foil a fandy loam. It was hand hoed 

 well for three or four years, and afterwards 

 brcafl ploughed twice a year. The hand 



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