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This method, if the under plit be fuffici- 

 ently moiil: and mellow to break kindly with 

 the harrow, appears to be moft eligible ma- 

 nagement. 



4. The quantity of seed. — Three bufliels 

 an acre may be taken as the nearefl medium 

 quantity of feed-barley. 



5, 6. Covering^ — adjusting. — Whether or 

 not grafs-feeds be fown over the barley, the 

 furface is harrowed, prefently after the lall 

 plowing ; and, when the barley is up, run 

 over with a light roller, 



VII. Vegetating PROCESS. — Kandweeded. 



VIII. Harvest-process. — i. Time of cut- 

 ting. Barley, like wheat, is generally fuffered 

 to Hand until it be very ripe. 



2. Method of cutting. — It is univerfally 

 mown into fwath ; — with a fmall bow fixed at 

 the heel of the fithe. — Cradles are not in ufe ; 

 and the north-country method of letting it up 

 in finglets, is unknown. 



3. Method of drying. — If barley receive 

 ■wet in the fwath, it is treated in a fingular 

 method in Norfolk. It is not turned, but 



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