. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 5082. The springbarley or early barley [a), Orgecarrie, Sucrion de printemps, Fr., is distinguished by itsdouble row of beards or awns standing erect, and its thin husk, which renders it favourable for is the sort principally cultivated in the southern and eastern districts of both England and Scotland,and of which the farmers make two
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 5082. The springbarley or early barley [a), Orgecarrie, Sucrion de printemps, Fr., is distinguished by itsdouble row of beards or awns standing erect, and its thin husk, which renders it favourable for is the sort principally cultivated in the southern and eastern districts of both England and Scotland,and of which the farmers make two sorts, viz. ffle common, and the rath-ripe barley : but these two sortsare in reality the same; for the rath-ripe is only an alteration of the common barley, occasioned by beinglong cultivated upon warm gravelly soils. The seed of this, when sown on cold or strong land, will, thefirst year, ripen near a fortnight earlier than the seed taken from strong land, and therefore the farmersin the vales generally purchase their seed-barlev from the warm or gravelly lands ; for, when preservedin the vales two or three years, it becomes full as late in ripening as the common barley of their ownproduct: on the other hand, the farmers on warm lands are
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