^34 BARLEY. ^^i 



barley is coveted for feed throughout the 

 kingdom. 



III. Succession. — In the grand routine, 

 barley fucceeds wbeai and turneps ; and in 



'feme very light land farms, k is fown inflead 

 cf wheat, after the fecond yearns lay. 



IV. Soil-process. — i. After wheat;-— 

 the ftubble having been trampled down with 

 bullocks at turneps, and wheat-feel being 

 €nifhed, the farmer begins to i^ fcale in his 

 ^^eat fiubbles" fjor a winter fallow for barjey. 

 If the land lie in narro\y work, the ridgelets 

 are fplit ; if in warps, the ground is likewife 

 plowed clean, but very fleet. The beginning 

 ©f March, the land is harrowed, and prefently 

 ^fter the farmer ** takes up hiswheat-ftubbles'* 

 by a full-pitch crofs-plowing ; or, if the feafoii 

 be wet and the foil heavy, he reverfes the 

 ridges. In April he harrows, and begin? 

 .•'■flirring for barley,** with another full-pitch 

 plowing, lengthway ; generally gathering the 

 foil by this plowing either into five-pace, or 

 into ten-pace warps ; in which it lies until 

 feed^tirue ; — when it is harrowed ; rolled ; 



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