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Mr. Penny makes it a rule in the feeding 

 his ground, always to change the foil, but 

 not the feed : That is, upon clay to low 

 wheat that was railed upon fand, gravel, or 

 light loam ; and the contrary. Diitance he 

 reckons nothing ; but his experiments on 

 this point are not decifive, as all his own 

 wheat feed comes from the Vale of White 

 Ho?fe t Berkfiire. 



His preparation of the feed is, to fteep it 

 in a brine firft made itrong enough to bear 

 an egg, and then with half as much more 

 fait added : In this he fteeps it two hours. 

 He finds it a remedy for the fmut ; as the 

 ftrength of the brine throws up the un- 

 found corn, fuch being always the lighted. 

 He diftinguimes the burnt grain and the 

 fmutty by this j the burnt is as long as the 

 common grain, and black ; the fmut is 

 black alfo, but perfectly globular, and puffs 

 like a puff ball. After the keeping he dries 

 it with lime. 



He has more than once (own the fkim- 

 mings of the fteeping quite fmutty, and had 

 perfectly found grain in return : This he at- 

 tributes to the ftrength of the brine. 



His barley feed he fliifts from foil to foil, 

 in the fame manner as wheat. 



The culture of barley here is excellent. 

 They plow the land in March, (but this 

 mould be in October,) in May dung it, 

 twenty load to an acre, twenty-ei^ht bufli- 



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