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85 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 456. Brown on Rural Affairs, 

 vol. ii. p. 16. 



84 Marshall's Gloucestershire, vol. i. p. 118. 



85 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 489. Brown on Rural Affairs, 

 vol. ii. p. 45. The ideas and experience of the farmers in Ireland, are totally 

 different. In that country, barley, in well cultivated and good soils, tillers as 

 much as wheat, and the head produced from these collateral shoots, are as pro- 

 ductive, as from the main stem, or parent plant. Some of the best farmers in 

 Ireland, sow their barley thin, on well prepared land, and find it injudicious to 

 sow it on lands on which the plant would not tiller. Remark by Edward Bur- 

 roughs, Esq. 



86 Marshall's West of England, vol. i. p. 194. Ditto, Yorkshire, vol. ii. 

 p. 20. 



87 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 501. Brown on Rural Affairs, 

 vol. i. p. 49. 



88 General Report of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 519. Brown on Rural Affairs, 

 vol. ii. p. 61. 



89 Marshall's Norfolk, vol. i. p. 251. 



90 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 530. 



91 Coventry's Discourses, p. 84. 92 Ditto, p. 80. 



93 For three seasons, the plan of steeping turnip seed in train-oil, prevented 

 the attack of the fly at Lord Orford's, in Norfolk. See Appendix, p. 70. The 

 evening before the seed was to be used, as much as would be required the next 

 day, was first steeped in train-oil, and then kept in salt pickle during the night. 

 Seven gallons of oil, is sufficient to prepare seed for two hundred acres of tur- 

 nips. There was a partial failure of this process, to the amount of thirty acres, 

 which was attributed to an excessive rain having fallen, by which the noxious 

 quality of the oil was destroyed. Annals of Agriculture, vol. xiv. p. 168. 



94 In the spring of 1 783, a farmer in Cornwall, (Mr James Chappie, in 

 Bodmin,) soaked his seed barley in dunghill- water, in which it lay for 24 hours. 

 All the light corn which floated on the surface, was skimmed off. On taking 

 it out of the water, a sufficient quantity of sifted wood-ashes, to make it spread 

 regularly, was mixed with the seed ; and three fields were sown with it. The 

 produce was 60 bushels per acre, of good clean barley ; while several fields be- 

 longing to the farmer himself, and to his neighbours, where no preparation had 

 been used, were very poor, not producing more than 20 bushels per acre. 

 Papers of the Bath Society, vol. iii. p. 303. Dunghill-water, however, must 

 be used with great caution, as a steep. If diluted, it can do no great harm, 

 but if kept for some time, in a concentrated state, it becomes highly putrescent, 

 and may prove detrimental, and indeed may destroy the vegetative powers of the 

 plant. 



95 It is an old proverb, " That an early sowing sometimes deceives, but a 

 late sowing never, for the crop from it is always bad." Dickson's Husbandry of 

 the Ancients, vol. ii. p. 18. 



96 Its produce on the Polders, or carse lands, is 10 quarters per English 

 acre, or 15 bolls and a half per Scotch acre. Carse land is peculiarly calcula- 

 ted for this species of grain. Radcliff's Flanders, p. 15. In Ireland, it is 

 known under the name of here or bigg, and is frequently sown in autumn, with 

 much success. It is considered a valuable crop on lands that have been pared 

 and burnt, and on lands of a friable, and a fertile quality. Remark by Edward 

 Burroughs, Esq* 



97 Winter barley has been sown by Mr Ellman of Glynde, in Sussex, prin- 

 cipally as spring feed for his sheep, but on the whole, he prefers rye, being a 

 fortnight earlier. 



98 Communication from Thomas Radcliff, Esq. of Globe- Hill, near Ennis- 

 corthy, in Ireland. 



99 Several farmers, who are friends to the drill, admit, that in unfavourable 



