' so DEESSING BARLEY. 



against the smut, or uredo segetum with equally 

 good effect, because the scattering of the spores 

 at an earlier season diffuses them extensively. 

 But barley fields, where they often adhere 

 longer than in wheat, ought to be more attended 

 to than they are ; for a great quantity of this 

 grain is almost every year destroyed by it. As 

 knowledge advances, it is to be hoped the pre- 

 judice which leads some to regard the appear- 

 ance of this fungus with the complacency 

 before mentioned, will be removed. It may 

 happen that the state of the atmosphere which 

 is favourable to its development, tends to a good 

 yield of barley ; but it should be remembered 

 that every ear so destroyed is a loss of supe- 

 rior corn. By all means dress barley where there 

 has been much smut the previous year. In 

 this year, 1846, it is most lamentably prevalent. 

 With regard to the uredo fcetiday although 

 judicious dressing has been found to check it 

 to such a beneficial degree, that it is considered 

 to be bad management to have much of it on 

 any farm, it still abounds in districts where the 

 agriculture is of an inferior kind. It is also 

 f*ound to prevail more in the spring than in 

 the autumn sown wheats. The safeguard is 

 the perfect purity and cleanliness of the seed. 



