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When threshed, it is but badly cleaned, and generally infected with rats and Lolium, particularly the latter, which is here called drake. In an english market it would fetch but an indifferent price.
In the cultivation of Indian Corn they succeed better, not owing to the management, but to the nature of its growth. But it is frequently gathered too green, and not well dried, which soon causes it to mould and rot. It is chiefly planted in October, and gathered in the latter end of March and April. But at Hawkesbury they plant Indian corn upon their stubble ground.
Barley I know but little about, for I have not seen much cultivated; but what there is, is chiefly confined to the Hawkesbury. Oats, I do not know that they have yet been cultivated, even upon trial; they are generally a pest in wheat crops.
Hay is an article I have not seen attempted at, and yet in the winter the cattle are half starved. But one would imagine, that the increase of cattle would cause it to be sought after. Hawkesbury appears to me to be land well suitable for Rye grass, and that it would yield very heavy crops. But such a thing (as Rye grass) is unknown here,
Manure or dung I must not pass over in silence, as there has been a deal of bad land cleared which now lies as