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turned up to the furface by the feed-earth of 

 the barley fhould be fuiFered to evaporate be- 

 fore the grafs-feeds are lodged among it, is 

 rather inexplicable ; unlefs it be intended to 

 gain a frelh advantage over the root-weeds ^ 

 which have been harrowed up in covering the 

 barley. 



Or, perhaps, the practice has been eflablifhcd 

 on a Hill broader bafis. It has, perhaps, 

 been found, from long experience, that the moi- 

 fture turned up by the feed-plowing of the 

 barley, is, fometimes, fufficient to bring the 

 o-rafs-feed into a ftate of vegetation, without 

 being able to fupport them through a continu- 

 ance of dry weather : whereas by fuffering the 

 furface-mould to dry before the feeds be fown 

 in it, they lie in a ilate of fafety until rain 

 falls ; while the barley, being buried deeper, 

 gets up to Hiade the tender feedlings ; and at 

 the fame time gets, as it ought to do, the af- 

 cendency of the grafs-feeds. 



2. Preparation of the seed. I did not 

 meet with an inftance of any preparation being 

 made ufe of, in this Diftrid:. 



3. Method of sowing. The different 

 forts are ufually mixed and fov/n together ; 



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