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that being the happy juncture which ought to 

 be embraced. 



In the backward fpring of 1782, barley was 

 Ibwn in June, with confidence, and with luc-- 

 eefs : I have by me a fample of exceedingly- 

 good barley, produced from feed fown, by 

 an experienced hufbandman, the fourth and fifth 

 of June. See note to Min, 125, for remarks 

 on this incident. 



2. Preparing the seed. — I never met 

 with an inftance either of fortifying it againil 

 difeafe, or of fleeping it to forward its vegeta- 

 tion in a dry feafon, or a backward feed-time. 

 This is flrong evidence, though not a proof, 

 that fleeping feed-barley with intent to pro- 

 mote its vegetation, has no beneficial efied:. 



3. The method of sowing. — All fown 

 broadcaft ; and almofl all under-fiirrow ! that 

 is, the furface having been fmoothed by the 

 harrow and roller, the feed is fown and plowed 

 under with a fhallow furrow : a circumftance 

 this, which, until I obferved it in Norfolk, 

 had never occurred to me, either in pradicc 

 or theory ; though admirably adapted to a 

 light dry foil ; and, indeed, to any foil which 

 is light enough to produce good barley ; 



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