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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    Chap. 29. Reducement of Land to pri(tine Fertility, » Which will give thee better fatisfaQion than all the Figures ~ Cai doe.> 4 | Yet thus much learn from hence, that the Land that ly- eth foupon the fide of ahill, as there is no plowing it up- ward and downward, may very well- beplowed with this plough, and beftof all, and it is efpecially ufefuill hereto or if youhave any flat level] peece, where you .would not have one furrow difcovered » this will do icalf{o; the fore- moft Horfe or Ox alway going in the furrow, andthe neareft alway upon the Land, and alway double; and 1am confident it may be caft into a neater form , and made to very good advantage ; the weightinefs and _uglinefs of it I hate, but the Turnwreft conceit I like, which my occe- fions have not permitted me to experiment, of which! fhall fay no more at prefent, but that the Turnwretts to caft the furrow is very good and ufefull for the two forts of ground abovefaid, that I fhall give you alfo fomewhat a large accompt, be» wheel plough. caufe ic isan excellent good one » and you may nfeitupon almoft any fortof Lands, which the Figure and de(cripti- on of the fame, which (hall be drawn into that fhape and form that will admic of more lightnefs and nimblene(s than any of the former, You may fee the ufe and fafhion- of it too at Colonell Blunts near Greenwitch in Kent , a Gentleman of great e- fteem andhonour in bis Country, who hath made very m= ny of them. The main Plough-beam. is very fhort, about five foct long, made of very good wood > but {mall and light as may be , towhich is another falfe Beam added below the Coul- ter hole, underthe other and fixed to it by a ftaple, drove up into the true Beam, with a Capping upon the falfe Beam end, or fome other way, the form whereof is not much materiall , which falfe Beam is that by which the plough is drawn , and gives Opportunity by a Standard put into the end of it, bored ae of hols, and pafling through
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