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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    pats wich the Breaft-board, may ‘alfovbe of excellent'caleto the plough ; for after it hath gon, and is {coured bright, the ‘earth will flip off, and pafsaway with much eafe, and will “carry noearth at all, which is to the great eafe of che plough 5 and both thefe are better than a Coumb put: through the Share-pan, and fo come’ up along ‘the nof€ of the Shield - board, and theif nailed to ftrengthen theneck ofthe plough; or ele put up.intothe plough-beam to ftrengthen ic either; yet this] alfo prefer before thofe that have neither this, not - the aforefaid helps. And as for other fafhioned Shares, whe- ther made to the fingle wheeled plough’, orto the double wheeled plough, whether witha pan, or without:a pan, ic matters not, fo that at the firtt entrance of the earth, it be rightly compaffed,and caft for the cleanly turning over the furrow, and the Share point made very {mall , fharp,and well fteeled, be it long or fhort. 2 Asto the Coulter, his truthof Workmanthip lyeth. in The Coulter this, whether itbe Dutch or Englifh Coulter, charit be well how beft made fteeled'and wrought fharp and thin on the edge, the point al-. fo looking forward, if Englifh, and theedge alway placed jut forward, neither carving, or turnipg cowards the Land , for that will alway be apt to draw the plough too wide,nor yct into the furrow, for that will be alway ‘apt to work it to go toonarrow, but juft fraighe forward by a ftraighe line to- the pitch of the plough; bucifa Dutch Coulter, then the wheel to be very well fteeled, and about ten inches high, and bh nitaet to goe astrue as poflible ; for the falfe cutting of the wheel ee will make you work ata great uncertainty, which Coulter isnot ufefall neither upon ftony, gravelly, ftinty, broomy ». gofly,or rooty ground, but upon pure tu rf, or pure mould, on which it goeth very eafie. ‘The midft of the wheel had near be an inchthick becaufe of wearing, and fo wrought thinner and thinner towards the edgeround, untill ix come to beasthinasa knifeif ic were: polfible ; but becaufe this Coulter is with many of high e- fieem, and of fome advantage, and yet not much known, I wil give you the figure of it,as alfo of che belt fort of Eoglifh, foritscompafs, anda fhirp thin well-tempered: edge, bet cends. ie ys te — Soa Sa
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