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ing the barley, I am persuaded there would be 

 no risk of any deficiency in the crop. 2. It is 

 frequently sown after beans or pease. In this 

 case the barley crop is found to be more or less 

 abundant, in proportion as the beans and pease 

 have been more or less luxuriant and clean. 

 3. Barley is sometimes sown after oats, with 

 two or three ploughings, and with or without 

 dung, according to the condition of the land. 

 And, 4. It is sometimes sown after wheat. 

 This method, however, I should think not judi- 

 cious. Wheat and barley are, perhaps, too si- 

 milar in quality to succeed one another imme- 

 diately in the rotation : And accordingly, I have 

 heard farmers complain that their barley crop 

 was seldom good, when sown after wheat. 



2*/, Sort. i. Common Barley , usually called 

 Bear, with six rows of grain on the ear. This 

 kind was once very generally cultivated ; but, 

 as improvements in agriculture advance, is 

 now falling into disrepute. It still continues 

 to be sown in the higher and colder parts of 

 the county, to which it is much better adapt- 

 ed than any other kind, as it ripens early, and 

 will yield a tolerable crop on ground, where a- 

 ny other kind would fail. 2. The long-eared 

 barley, with two rows of grain. This sort is 

 now universally cultivated on all lands that ly 

 low, and are warm, and are under an improved 

 system of husbandry. It produces larger grain, 

 and of a better quality, than the common bear, 

 is stronger and harder in the straw, and not so 

 apt to lodge, and therefore more proper, when 

 grass seeds are sown along with it. It has been, 

 alledged by some, that when barley and com- 



