t^6 CLOVER* 



10. ^ions. — To free barley from the awn, in years or 

 crops when it is very tough and adhesive, Mr. Bevan 

 has a horse rode by a boy repeatedly over the floor when 

 six to eight or nine inches deep in barley, and it Is found 

 cfFedtuallv and cheaply to free it. 



11. Malt. — In 1800 Mr. Gilpin, of Heacham, a 

 considerable maltster, bought some beautiful barley that 

 had not received a drop of rain, and trying a small parcel 

 of it, found it malted badly : he tried a most uncommon 

 experiment, and founded upon an idea very contrary to all 

 common ones on the subject: he kiln-dried it by a gentle 

 heat, watering it lightly with a watering-pot twice or 

 thrice, six bouts intervening ; dried it : after which opera- 

 tion it malted well, every grain sprouting, and no malt 

 could be finer. Hence observes the very intelligent gen- 

 tleman* from whom I liad this account, it is evident that 

 a good shower of rain in harvest, or a sweat in the stack, 

 is beneficial to the maltster. 



By the same gentleman it was remarked to me, that 

 malt keeps better with the coml? in it, screening when 

 wanted. 



The best trial is to swim it in water ; all that swims is 

 good malt ; what sinks, is barley rather than malt. 



SECT. VI. — CLOVER. SEEDS. 



I PURSUE the general rotation in treating of these crops. 

 Seeds, as they are usually called, are universally sown with 

 barley that succeeds turnips. 



Thirty years ago they had for some time found their 

 clover crop failing, from its recurring too often ; this 



♦ Maxsy Allsn, Esq. of Lynn, 



caused 



