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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    tends moft to the eafe of our Englifh Coulter, and it thall be where I give the defcription of the Ploughs! intend to {had- dow forth. And as the Plough-holder or Plough-man may much pre- judice the eafie going of the Plough, fo onerightly quali- fied may in great meafure advantage it, although the Plough be made never fo exaft and true ; and therefore | give thele two or three generall Rules to the Plough-holder, vvhich are natural] to any fort of Ploughs whatever, although there are fome different rules appertenant to fome perticular Ploughs, asthe double wheeled Plough, and the Pennine Kentifh Ploughs, which would betoo tedious to difcourfe , but thefe J leave co the Plough-mans prattice, being eafily found out by two or three dayes experience... The firft general] Rule {hall be that the Plongh-man be able to judge and determine within himfelf the truth both ef the Plough-wright, and the Smiths workmanthip, and in. cafehe find an errour thereiniat firft tomend ic, which ts far eafier done than after the Plough or Irons be wrought into a greatererror 3 yea then. ic is poffibleit may not be reco- verable. 4 | And fecondl y, haying his Plough, and all its Accucrements The beft way compleated, then co the tryall of ic, and therein be fure to-fer the tryall make the firft tryall of your Plough upon Jand workable,ar.d of a new regular Jands,. not;upon Jands above meafure hard rooty, P’ovet: rufhey, twitchey, or any way unfeacible, becaufe upon {uch lands. a true demonftration of the. goodnefs and truth of the Plough cannot. be difcoyered ; nor any Rule.can be ok- ferved. . ; : P 2 Becaufe fuch lands. will. more. eafily and fuddenly wrench, writh, or put, anew Plough out of its work before itbe wrought incojics work, .A rough new.Plough being fomewhat like anunbroken horfe, which may. eatily be {poy led.in the hand of a violent madscap Rider, but if the horle bekindly. ufed, and taken off his untamednefs by degrees , by eafe, kindnefs,. and patience, he ismadeahorfe forever ; fo after thatin ordinary land, your patient difcreet Plough- man have'well fcoured, your Plougtt, brought it co.a a Lbine 932 _ Ceo2 : shy ure
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