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land is steam-cultivated once or twice, as may be necessary to 
thoroughly clean it. A bout November it is horse-plouglied ; 
and as soon as the frost has broken up and the land is dry enough 
in the spring, it is lightly scarified either by horse or steam- 
power, harrowed and rolled, and drilled with 12 pecks of 
Chevalier barley per acre. Generally it is top-dressed with 
1^ cwt. of guano and 2 cwt. of salt per acre. Mowing is paid 
for at the rate of from 2s. or 3s. per acre, and " pooking " at the 
rate of Is. per acre, the usual allowance of cider being given in 
addition. On this farm barley is never sheafed. 
(b) After Turnips. — As soon as the turnips have been fed off 
the land is ploughed once ; and if the weather has been dry 
while the sheep have been on the land, it is dressed simply by 
harrowing and rolling ; but if wet weather has prevailed, and the 
land has been made stiff, it receives a light scarifying in addition 
to the other preparation. Twelve pecks of seed per acre are 
drilled after turnips, and no top-dressing is given, otherwise the 
treatment of barley in this course is identical with that of barley 
after wheat. 
3. iSeeds. — The barley succeeding wheat, and half that succeed- 
ing roots on the four-course systems, is horse-hoed once ; and then 
more than half of it is sown by means of a seed-barrow with 
12 lbs. of red clover and 4 lbs. of white Dutch per acre; and 
the remainder is sown either broadcast or by the barrow, with 2 
bushels of Italian rye-grass. The former is mown the first 
year, and the aftermath eaten off ; it is fed off the next year by 
the 20th of June, the dung-cart following the fold, and the land 
ploughed immediately for rape and turnips, to be followed by 
wheat. The Italian rye-grass is folded off by sheep from the 
water-meadows, and is got rid of by the 20th of May, when 
the land is immediately prepared for swedes. 
The barley following roots in the five-course system (32 acres) 
is sown with the same mixture of red clover and white Dutch 
as that just mentioned, and the seeds are treated in the same 
manner, except that one-half of this course, instead of being fed 
off by the end of May, and followed by rape and turnips, is not 
folded off until the end of October, and is succeeded immediately 
by wheat. 
The barley following wheat in the five-course system (32 acres) 
is laid down with 5 bushels of sainfoin, 6 lbs. of trefoil, and 
4 lbs. of white Dutch clover per acre. This is lightly fed by ewe 
lambs after the barley is cut, and it remains down for the next 
three years. As a rule, it is cut two years, and entirely fed 
either the first or the third year, but generally the first. In this 
case, after being cut in the second year, it would be fed after the 
scythe ; and the third year it would be cut first, then folded 
