MINUTES 



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SOIL- PRO- 



CtSS. 



TURNEPS. 



BARLEY. 



FARMERS, 



he gives very fleet, and fetches the foil up the 

 laft plowing a full pitch ; by which means he 

 fows his feed amongft a mould which has never 

 beenexpofedtothedroughtj and, confequently, 

 contains a degree of moifture very favourable 

 to the feedling plants. 



To this management he attributes, in fome 

 meafure, his great fuccefs in turneps this year, 

 They are indeed the beft in the country, and on 

 a foil whereon turneps have not grown, with 

 any degree of fuccefs, for many years. 



For olland barley, he endeavours to break 

 the flag as little as poffible, fo that the grafs be 

 killed: he therefore would chufe not to break 

 up his olland till after Chriftmas. With this, 

 procefs he fows the barley above-furrow. 



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JANUARY 29. In a converfation, to-day, 

 with two of the firft farmers in the county, a 

 comparifon between the prefent times and thofe 

 of fifteen to twenty years ago, became the fub- 

 jeft. 



The price of barley was, then, from five 

 millings to feven millings a coomb ; of wheat, 

 from ten millings to fourteen millings; and 

 Ijeef three millings and fixpence a ftone. Now, 



barley 



