in husbandry, an operation performed on the wheat-feed, in order to prevent the imput. A liquor is to be prepared for this purpose, by putting 70 gallons of water into a tub (like a malt-tub used for brewing), and a corn-bushel of unslaked limestone. This is to be well stirred till the whole is dissolved, and left to stand for 30 hours; after which it is to be drained off into another tub, in the manner practised for beer. In this way about a hoghead of strong lime-water will be obtained, to which must be added three pecks of salt. The wheat must be steeped in this pickle, by running it gently, and in small quantities, into a broad-bottomed basket of about 24 inches in diameter, and 20 inches deep, and stirring it. The light feed that floats must be strained off with a strainer, and must not be sown. When the basket has been drawn up, and drained of the pickle, the wheat will be fit for sowing in two hours after the brining.

BRINING OF hay-ricks, a practice common in America, of mixing salt with the hay as it is stacked.

BRIONNE, a town of France in Normandy, seated on the river Rille. E. Long. 0. 51. N. Lat. 49. 51.