General view of the agriculture of the county of Northumberland ; with observations on ... its improvement / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture.
- John Bailey
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: General view of the agriculture of the county of Northumberland ; with observations on ... its improvement / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![BARLEYi Is generally sown after turnips : in Glendale ward, a few farmers cultivate it in drills, with 9 ot 12 inch in- tervals. The kinds most commonly cultivated, are : 1st, The common long-ear'd Barleyy Which being early, produclive, and best liked by the maltsters, is by far the most prevalent. This variety is distinguished (from the next) by the skin having a light red or purplish tinge a little before it is rip^ and being marked with seven dark red lines, running longitudinally along the back of the grain, and may be called the red strokedy or dark skinned karley^ 2d, A 'variety of the long-ear d Barky, the awns of which drop, or are easily shaken off when ripe y from the grain being shorter, plumper, and rounder-bodied than the common sort, it is preferred by the millers for making into pearl-barley. This variety ripens later than the com- mon kind, or red stroked barley, by near a fortnight, and is distinguished from it by the grains being closer set, and the skin having a light yellowish tinge, and not being marked by dark red lines ; it Is also shorter in the straw, and may be called the yeiloW, or pale-skinned long-ear’d barley- 8d, Battle-door, or Sprat Barley, is sometimes grown, and is preferred for sowing upon land in high condition, w'hefe there Is <^angcr of the other kinds lodging : it is about three weeks later of ripening than the common kind. i . 4th, Bear, Bigg, or foiir-ronved Barley, iised to be the only species of barley cultivated in the county : it is now rarely sown, except upon raw, crude soils, on which it is found to answer better than any other, more especially if lato sown, owing to the turnips having been kept longer NtraTiiuMC.] G than](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22037949_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
