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Vlf. The method of PLOWING buck under, 

 and the after- management of buck-fallows, 

 have been defcribed under the article wheat. 



VIII. For the harvest-process of buck, 

 we refer to the head barley ; the harveft- 

 inanagement of both crops being fimilar. 



IX. The FARM-YARD MANAGEMENT of 



harvefled buck is alio fimilar to that of bar- 

 ley ; except that the flravv being fit for litter, 

 only, and the grain being wanted for the fat- 

 ting of pigs, in autumn, and the beginning of 

 winter, it is frequently thrafhed out prefently 

 after harveft, before the live-ftock are taken 

 into the yards. 



X. Markets. Notwithftanding it is highly 

 probable that there is more buck grown annu- 

 ally in Norfolk, than in the other thirty-nine 

 counties of the kingdom, it is all confumed 

 in the neighbourhood of its growth. It is the 

 uoiverfal food of fwine and poultry ; both of 

 which it fats quick and well. It is fome- 

 times crushed for pigs, and fometimes given 

 to them whole : in this pafe, however, fome 



judicious 



