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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    oF ae TT te a ef ® — TS Chap.27. Reducement of Land to priftine Fertility, better profit than grafing, and fometimes a double profit, and fometimes more, near a treble profit,and then to Clover it again, which wil afford a treble,fourfold yea to or 12 fold Advance, if not more. And fo if you confider one Acre of land with the Claver and Husbandry thereof, may ftand you the firft year in twenty five fhillings, the thrce other years not above ten fhillings, the Land being worth no more, which may p:oduce you yearly,eafily five,fix,or eight pound per annum per Acre; nay fome will affirm ten, or twelve poundor more ; then moft of my Improvements promifed are made good, as in my Frontifpiece is held forch under this CHAP. XXVII. Speaks of the ufage of St. Foyne and La-lucern. we Proceed to thedifcovering of che ufeand ad- ayy vantage of St.Foynea French Graft,of which #9 | muft ule plain dealing, and not putmy Rea- age, der upon improbable Experiments, as is my roy chiefeftaym. And asin fome part of my for- er difcourfe I promifed co bring down to our prattice fome Out-landifh Experiments which vvere hinted at and difco- vered unto Mr. Hartlib by Letter to be a great deficiencie to us in our Improvements thenon-prattice thereof ; fol muft, and vvill hold forth no more than ].can make proof of to the Expcriment thereof,only J have fowed of it this year, fhall and the fruit youmay rationally expect, and the Lands upon which itis to befowen,and fo leave it and you toyour own experience and Gods bleffing. 3 I fhall nottroublée you with che defcription. of icas an to fearch out the nature of ‘any Herb or Plant in jcfelf , buc iN Bb as
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