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Now for fitting of seuerall séedes to seuerall soyles, you shall obserue, that the best séede-Barly for your clay field, is ninam Barly, sowne vpon the clay field, that is to say, Barly which is sowne where
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His name in the 1900 census is illegible, but HeritageQuest indexes him as "Barly."
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Rye 10 dollors a Bushel, Barly 6, corn not to be had, not one
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 29 September 1778, draft 1973
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Next to your Wheate, you shall haue regard to your Barly, for it sodainely ripeneth, and must be cut downe assoone as you perceiue the straw is turned white, to the bottome, and the eares bended downe to the groundward.
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Now for the choise of your séede-Barly, you shall vnderstand, that for as much as it is a graine of the greatest vse, & most tendernesse, therefore there is the greatest diligence to be vsed in the election thereof.
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Barly to this quantity of Cream will be enough, and four Ounces of
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Wheat and Barly in this kingdome, yet for hastie-Pease, French Beanes, and such like pulse, it is of necessary imployment, both in rich and poore mens gardens.
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Know then that of Barly there be diuers sorts, as namely, that which wée call our common Barly, being long eares with two rankes of
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After your séede-Barly is sould, you may then thresh vp all such Wheate,
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After Pease séede-time, you shall then thresh vp all that Barly which you meane to sell for séede, which euer is at the dearest reckoning of any graine whatsoeuer, especially if it be principally good and cleane.
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