The New England farmer; or, Georgical dictionary: containing a compendious account of the ways and methods in which the most important art of husbandry. In all its various branches, is, or may be, practised to the greatest advantage in this country / By Samuel Deane, A.M. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Samuel Deane
Date:
1790
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Credit: The New England farmer; or, Georgical dictionary: containing a compendious account of the ways and methods in which the most important art of husbandry. In all its various branches, is, or may be, practised to the greatest advantage in this country / By Samuel Deane, A.M. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i The farmers in Pennfylvania _. have a four rowed barley, which is _ the fort that they principally cul- _tivate. This alfo has the name of bearin Europe. Bear is muck cul- tivated in Ireland and Scotland ; But in England, they chiefly culti- vate other forts which they think better for malting. - I] have received a naked barley, fo calied, with no more hull on the corns than wheat. How profita- ble this will be, time and experi- ence muit difcover. But this is undoubtedly what is called Ger- man barley, tritico-/peltum, of in Englith, {pelt. - BARN, a fort of houfe ufed for ftoring unthrefhed grain, hay and ftraw, and all kinds of fodder. But the other ufes of barns in this coun+ try are, to lodge and feed beatts in, to threfh grain, drefs flax, &c. A barn fhould bé large enough to ferve the farmer for all thefe purpofes : For there is always more loft by ftacking of hay and grain, than enough to balance the expenfe of barn room. Regard muft bé had to the fitua- tion of a barn. It fhould be at a convenient diftance from the dwell- ing houfe, and other buildings; as * mearas may be without danger of fire, if the fhape of the ground per- mits. Too low a {pot will be miry in {pring and fall. Too high an eminence will be bad for drawing in loads, and on account of faving and making manures, Ifother cir- cumftances permit, it may be beft to place a barn in fuch a manner as to defend the dwelling houfe from the force of the coldeft winds. The molt confiderable parts of a barn are, the floor, the bay, the cow-houle, the {caffolds, the ftable. See Cow-houfe and Stable. The threfhing floor fhould be laid on {trong and fteady fleepers, well fup- ported beneath ; otherwife carting ~ in loads upon it will {oon loofen it; and render it unfit for threfhing. It fhould be made of planks, well feafoned, and nicely jointed ; and care fhould be taken to keep it very tight. If it fhould be fo open as to let grain, or any feeds, pafs through, the grain will be worfe than loft, as it will ferve to feed and incteafe vermin. © hee The fills of a barn fhould be made of the moft durable kind of timber, as they are more liable to rot than thofe of other buildings, on account of the dung lying about them. The fills muft be laid rath- | er low, not only for the convenient entrance of cattle and carts, but ~° becaufe the ground will be lowered. round barns, by the yearly taking away of fome of the furface with the dung. They fhould be well underpiniied with {tones laid a lit= tle below the furface of the ground 3 and well pointed with lime, to pre- vent lofs of manure. And. dung fhould not lie fermeriting againft the fides of a bain; BARN-YARD, a {mall piece of inclefed ground contiguous to a barn, in which cattle are ufually kept. It fhould have a high, clofe, arid {trong fence, both to fhelter | the bea{ts from the force of driving ftorms, and to keep the moft un= — ruly ones from breaking out. By prodigioufly increafe his quantity of manure, if he will bé careful to take the right methods. The ground of a yatd for this purpofe fhould be of fuch a fhape as to retain all the manure, It fhould be loweft in the middle ; or at leaft fo high on all the fides, that even the greateft rains fhall not carry away any of the manure. This is a matter of fo much importance, that it may be well worth while to where nature has not dene it. But a bafin