The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith].

  • Walter Blith
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[1652]
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Credit: The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    everiniefs! be not effe&ted; to the compleating of which ycu muft have a fober ftaied Seed{man, that carries his hand high, takes his fteps even , and delavers his feed out of his hand atone equall and conftant bredth and widenefs, It is my conftant cry to my own Husbandmen to take heed of Plough-balking, and Harrow-balking, but now I fay in a more efpeciall manner, take heec of Seed-balking. ° The beft feafon for it is in the beginning of April, or in the end of March rather, if it be likely cobea dry feafon ; late | fowing may do in afruicfullicaion, but yearly is moft cer-. i tain. ‘The fourth particular is how <o preierve it, and mow it, Asst eck al and make it moft: ufefull for Seed and fervice. I have heard ‘ much talk of three Crops, and truly if ic be not referved it forfeed, I am confident ina fcuficfall year it will well bear | it, nay may be more; for though I love not fauning, neither affe& I f{mothering the Truth, nor to ecclipfe any new di@ covery; I therefore fay that if the Seed be saad. and ‘the Land either good natural, or artificially made good by Husbandry, it may very well bear three Crops, two to cut, and One to graze, and the firft Crop may by mid-May bee ready to cut; for this] fay, and moft will findit, chough they otherwife {peak high, that’ this grafs will be beft alway to be cut green , and before the ftalk begin to grow too big, & begin todyeand whither,unlefs it be for feed: Therfore, | as experience will teach, ic will be excellent good to eut it ercen and young, and give it cattleor horfe in the houle:s or if you cut itto keep, it will go fo near together, asit | very good and fweet, and eirker feed or give milk abun- dantly ; and then after the firftcut, let it grow for Seed’, and hereif you muftbe carefull that ic grow till it be full ripe, for it will not be very apt to fhed.. And if it grow to To know whe: feed, I cannot conceive of: what.ufe thofe ftalks which are fo is full ripe. hard and dry canbe of ; unlefs.it*be for firing in a dear Country , fo'that the feed muft be the advance of that Crop onely ; and fo it may well enough, and you may havea good after-pafture, and may grafe ic untill January, and.then pre- Aa 3 ferve.
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