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vising him to avoid such spring ploughing?, is not 

 derived from the practice of a few individuals, but 

 from that of a considerable district, occupied hy 

 numerous and intelligent farmers. 



BROAD-CAST BARLEY. 



The preceding directions are not confined to the 

 drill- husbandry, but are applicable to the prepara- 

 tion of the 'and for broad-casting. In this me- 

 thod, the same attention must be given to the 

 breadth of the lands, because the operations must 

 be effected by horses thiit walk only in the fur- 

 rows ; and whrii the seed is covered by harrowing, 

 the same attention must be paid to that circum- 

 stance. 



BARLEY ON FALLOW. 



In some very well-cultivated districts of heavy 

 land, it is the common practice to sow barley on a 

 summer fallow; it is particularly so in Essex. 

 There the farmers plough their fallows in August 

 or September, on two bout ridges, of three feet 

 breadth ; if in August, some will reverse the ridges 

 immediately after wheat-sowing, others before it. 

 They water- grip the field well, and in February 

 plough and sow, still on the same ridge, but har- 

 rowed nearly flat, by harrows made for the pur- 

 pose. If they h".ve a dry season to plough and 

 sow, they get good crops, but much ever depends 

 on this in spring tillage. To lay their lands in 

 such form as to admit the scarifier and drill, the 

 horses walking only- in the furrows, and avoiding 



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