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time of the year) is neccffarily exhaufted. But 

 this being a frequent practice of fome of the 

 bcH farmers in the Dillrift, we may rell: affurcd 

 that two plowings and harrowings are not 

 wantonly thrown away. The Norfolk farmers 

 in general are mailers in the art of cultivating 

 barley. They feem fully aware of the 

 tendernefs of this plant in its infant ftate, 

 and of its rootlings being unable to make 

 the proper progrefs in a com pad: or a cold 

 foil : they therefore ftrive by every means in 

 their power to render the foil open and pul- 

 verous. To this intent it is fometimes two- 

 furrowed, and fometimes a fourth earth is 

 given ; efpecially in a cold wet feafon. 



The backward fpring of 1782 tried their 

 ikill : fome lands were two-furrovred twice^ 

 over, laying the foil up in ridgelets, dry and 

 hollow ; fo that two or three fine days fitted it 

 for the reception of the feed 5 breaking under 

 the feed-plowing as fine as afhes. 



Nor is this caution confined to ^' turnep-bar- 

 ley," but is extended more or lefs to " flubble- 

 barley ;" which, however, does not require (o 

 great a degree of care; the foil in this cafe being 

 kept open, in fome meafure, by the undigefted 



ftubble. 



