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which I likewife efteem worthy of ■ public:'rtotice filiation
of a fwainpy field be fuch, that the cold.moifture cannot be
carried or by veiters, the natural refoiircc is the warm and dry
dung of horfes and fvvine. Where the foil is dry and deep
enough, fhceps-dung is the manure for barley;' as cow or ox
'dung for oats; but if very hungry, fandy or hilly, for fuch there
is no better manure than the earth of molehills in the fwampy
'countries, which at harveft is collected for 'this purpofe. By this
diftribotion of; every kind of dung or manure, varied according
to the foil, all the plowed lands may in time be improved doubly,
and be brought nearly to an equal goodnefs.
All kinds of gitalin' are fcwn in 'Norway,* though not evfeiy where
tO equal advantage, hr Hedemark, Jeddern, and in Nordland,
rye thrives beft, . but the vefyTeft-fe the hurdt;rye, which-is fowit
where woods hate been burned for that end, and the afhes left as
manure: Theylikewife fow voerling or ipring-rye, and great quantities
of both are ufed in Sondenfield, fince the arrival there in 1624
of feme Rye-fin landers, as they were called; forthefo inftmdied
the peafants in this method of converting ‘ theif! Wi0d^'*fd;Sr3hlfe
ufes, and manuring the land with the allies. However • profitable
this may- be-, where the woods will bear fiieh a confeniptioir, yet
it is detrimental and prohibited in other parts. -^Thef&ppa^taS Or
method of proceeding is as follows. A peafant having found but
a fpot, which will anfwer to the lowing of half,’ or a whole tori
of feed, he fells the wood, and leaves it on the ground pro years,
till it he throughly dried. When he propofes to-fet'fire to it,
which is. generally about midfummer, he waits till he obfcrves
clouds, which promife him rain, his fuccefs in this cafe, depending
thereon. Yet it frequently happens, that many are the
dupes - o f, a weatherwife neighbour’s conjecturesfor One'1 has no
fopner fet fire to his wood,. , than another, relying, on his judgment,
does-the like, and fo on, that fometimes the flames and fmoak of
thefe fires, are feen at once throughout a whole country. The
wood being burned as much as poffible, the greater pieces quenched,
and the lefler, together with the Jurface of the foil, the mofs,
and finall roots being reduced ..to afhes, without flaying till the '
earth
earth be codted, ithehfetds laarp tbrowd onTrfhesafhesp- ftiH ftkhot
that they.give^a finart craqk,-. denoting tha* .the huiks are fpbt.;
What; if.this actually,
happens,, the hope of fuch
an exuberant frye-haiveft,u as. will; feafee. appear. credible, to fa*;
rpigners*. tho’ upon enquiry it) will, heiferftodiaayn^owbtedmat-t-Cr-
of fact ; for, without any extraordinary accident,. a'fiiigle buflief
of burnt rye,' wdLjhdduce ^;fomedknes
iye*<!viThis:isceaTtainly.the'.effedbt>f:'rfre coErcentration'of the.’ve-:
getative fpirit in the afhCs, which, before-, it .can evapordte,. - impregnates
the . corn-.with fuch wonderful fecundity. And it is on
tfefcvfigrtartive Jpirit tlktithe chemalfe ^ounrfitheir regeneration;
of .burnt plants, tho! in fuch.air open pl|§e-, ’a* great park of theni
muft certainly be diflipatpA-by the iqtenfepefs of the' £tat. 'Thefe
conflagrations foxnetim.es- prove the opcafion of dreadful mifcjbfefs,
ai -in the'-'-yeaf
Were bufnedf and feven perfofts perifhed in them-,: proper riotieh
not having been giVen to the neighbourhood The Shops- of the
pafos fhoot- Sfon^kKe air like foCket^,f^nd' -hkve
fet fixfe td hdtifes kt^a'ccfofiderable diftance. .When the fire firft
feike^ thc but: attehded:
with a, boifterous wind and dreadful roarinuOs1. .
“ Every pkrt affords barley; but1 the beff pKic& fob it are1 Nord-f
l^d, the diocefe of Aggerfmusy :-the' jfordfhip b f ’l^edenes m the
dioeefe of CSififtknfend, and Sognefiord iti that of Bergen, where
excellent malt' ik made of the bullion,-ahd likdwife of apartL
cular kind, called David’s-barley, or Heaven’s-corn. IThii biriey,
vyljich in thrcfhing Ipfes its hufk, and-very much nefemblps wheat,
the peafants term Thor-terley, pqffibly from the opinioii of the
anCii^ts,,, tkjip,. -j^ua^exi^UL itjeas 'j^'e'.He^yein^-or,-‘lYal-,
halla ’of' the idol Thor, .where the Cup of Health went brifkly
round, imagined thx% ppm.: to he fit^^^ for the banquets of die gods,
an<i heroes. Dr. Lochfler, in his Djffertatiom dfc, Medicapientis
Norvegiffi,; && extols the liquor made of bmh as palataUe’and'
■ /* A ,bu3 ? 1? or in Danilh a fldepp, is die eighth part of a tun, thus the produce
01 one buihel in feed is forty-eight, fixty-ftmr,, pr-eveh eighty. '
whol-
Barley.