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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    all other have, but a little peece of wood fet along the Sheath forward, abourfiveinches broad, clofing upon theShare, juftas if you would-cat a Die in the midft fromcorner to corner; and place'the flat fide to the Sheath, and the edge forward, which is their breaft-board. The Share is put ap- onthe Plough-head with a pan half round upward, and flat downward, andis, or ought to be tufhed a little on both fides, as our ordinary ploughs are, and fo runs out toa {harp ont. : They have one Wreft ortwo, fomeoneand no more, but fometimes two, which I fhould conceive alwaies and atall times beft ; and this Wreft is to be patuponpins , one in the Sheath, ftanding juft under the Breaft-board, and the other unto a longer pin or round ftaff fixed into the bottom of the handle, as wide as the furrow, and this Wreft is no other but as around ftick about twofootlong, or rather a half round one, with two holes in it to put the aforefaid pins into; and at every Lands end this Wreft muft beturned on the other-fide; foif they have two muft they botlrbe alter- edalfo, and one plcaed two or three inches higher than the other, andthe higheft is to be placed broader by an inch and half, or twoinches, and fometimes three inches than the lowermoft to caft the furrow cleanly over. And forthe Coulrer , thatis alfo moveable in the Coul- ter hole, it being made very wide, at every Lands end, to which purpofe they have aftrong ground Oak-plant, about an inch and half over, that is very tough, and with that they will, having cwo pins placed upon the top of the Beam, one an equal] diftance from another, and both equally di- ftant from the Coulter,wreftor wrich the Coulter from one fide toanother, and there hold it till they come to the lands end, and there turn both Wreft and Coulter. # And thus you have a rude defcription of the Turnwreft or Kentifh plough, and the Figure you fhould have, would it advantage my Reader half fo much as ic would coft the eutting; but they are fo common in Kent all the Country over, and that fo near London, that Thad'rather when thou haft a mind invite thee-thither to fee the ching it Hy : WHICH.
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