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 MARCH. 



BARLEY. 



THIS is the proper month for getting seed- 

 barley into the ground. Crops later sown may be 

 very beneficial, bat, if all circumstances were equal, 

 the March-sown Would be superior to any at a 

 later season, which is here the comparative point of 

 consequence. This grain is sown after various pre- 

 parations. Turnips are the most common, which 

 root will not last for feeding any cattle, with pro- 

 priety, upon the average of seasons, longer than the 

 beginning of this month : so that the turnip-land 

 barley must be sown on one earth, or the season be 

 absolutely lost; for April and May sowings are \n- 

 ferior. I am riot here asserting, that April is a 

 month improper for sowing barley; I know the 

 contrary from experience ; but if soil, ploughing*, 

 manuring, water- furrowing, &c. are equal, a 

 March-sowing will exceed an April one, on an ave- 

 rage of several years, by four bushels in the crop. Say- 

 ing, therefore, that barley, in certain places, is sown 

 in April and May, and yields great crops, is saying 

 little, unless it be added at the same time, what 

 parallel success other crops had sown in March. 

 Neither do I venture to insinuate, that all March- 

 sown crops will be successful. One great point in 

 putting in most crops, but barley particularly, is 

 to have the land dry. March may pass away with- 

 out a single ploughing season for wet lands in the 



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