are thus lodged in the Seed when put into the Ground, and are part of the
nourishment the After-Crop enjoys; and for this reason I doubt not, but
when time has got the ascendant of prejudice, the whole Nation will come
into the practice of the invaluable Receipt published in two Books,
entituled, _Chiltern and Vale Farming Explained_, and, _The Practical
Farmer_; both writ by _William Ellis_ of _Little Gaddesden_ near
_Hempstead_ in _Hertfordshire_, not only for Barley, but other Grains.

But notwithstanding Barley may grow on a light Soil with a proper Manure;
and improved by the liquor of this Receipt, yet this Grain may be damaged
or spoiled by being mown too soon, which may afterwards be discovered by
its shrivelled and lean body that never will make right good Malt; or if
it is mown at a proper time, and if it be housed damp, or wettish, it will
be apt to heat and mow-burn, and then it will never make so good Malt,
because it will not spire, nor come so regularly on the floor as that
which was inned dry.

Again, I have known one part of a Barley-crop almost green at Harvest,
another part ripe, and another part between both, tho' it was all sown at
once, occasion'd by the several situations of the Seed in the Ground, and
the succeeding Droughts. The deepest came up strong and was ripe soonest,
the next succeeded; but the uppermost, for want of Rain and Cover, some of
it grew not at all, and the rest was green at Harvest. Now these
irregularities are greatly prevented and cured by the application of the
ingredients mentioned in the Receipt, which infuses such a moisture into
the body of the Seed, as with the help of a little Rain and the many Dews,
makes it spire, take root and grow, when others are ruined for want of the
assistance of such steeping.

Barley like other Grain will also degenerate, and become rank, lean and