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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    I Plough Irons made very true 2.Piece... Englands Improvement: or; Chap.39) ry way of Ploughing, and the taking away of fomie of the firength which isfo great a burthen to the Husbandman, is of very vaft concernment, and will take up a very large dif courte ; the effeCting whereof J (hall endeavour.under thefe following heads. : ) hey); Doirorstey 1 To difcover the feverall abufes or hindérances: to the well-going of the Plough , wich fome remedies thereto: 2 To give youthe defcriptions, with the Figures of feve- rallforts of Ploughs now in ufe. | : | 3 To demonftrate wherein. the chief eafe of the Plough confifts, with theeafieft gowing Plough,:and the advantage, gained thereby. Pale 4. To difcover to what forts of Land and feafons of plow= ing each Plough is moft futable, with a double Plough yet unknown,and a plough that fhall both plow and harrow a once. | 5} The A bufes or hinderances to be removedare many 5 wherein I thall {peak to particnlar-abufes only. . And firft abufe :1 {hall {peak to particular abufes'only pres judicial to the Ploughs eafie going. iri-the Blackfinith, orhe that makes the Irons for the Plough, I not being of the opi- nion as many are, that the Irons fhould be made to the: Plough, but that the Plough be madeto the Irons ; I there- fore fhall be bold to fay, that if Plough Irons be not made exceeding true in all points, according to the Land you have to plow, and wrought fair and-fmooth, a Plough-wright or Plough-maker fhall,not, nor cannot work truetoa falfe foundation ;_and ifitbe not wrought true, it fhall hardly go true, unlefs after much wearing, being wrought into’ work 3 it may plow reafonable well. at laft, .and by. that tinie’ the: Plough may be worn out, but never with that eafe, nor con= tinaance asit would by Truth of Workmanfhip :- Another abufe in him is the not ftecling his Plough-Irons well , and making them exceeding (harp and well pointed, The fecond abufe is in the Plough-maker, who works aca: cording to certain coarfe Rules he hath learned by trades knows not how to hold aPlough:himfelf, nor toapply aa e
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