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• I have one remark to make on the bean straw producing less than the barley straw. Just as 

 we had finished burning the barley straw, and going to burn the bean, a heavy shower of raia 

 fell, and though we waited as long as we conveniently could, to get it sowed that day, and kept 

 turning it, yet it did not burn down well and kindly ; to whicli I attribute the deficiency. It ap- 

 pears, however, very clear to me, that burnt straw, for the first crop, is a very excellent manure ; 

 as soon as it came up it looked best, and all through the summer the difference in colour was 

 discernable, as far as the land could be seen. Here is £i. within lid. for the bailey straw burnt 

 on the first crop ; the whole was thrashed on a large cloth in the field, which I find the most ac- 

 •urate method : the greatest disadvantage js> it employs the hands when wanted for harvest. 



