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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    one upon feverall forts of Land, and experimented them to the full with my own hands to my great expence, hall d-- {cend unto my third General Head for eafing the plough, mm Shall not with the leaft difparagement to any ~ of them (giving them theit due praife and honour:) draw fortha defcription ofthe moft eafie: going Plough] can, and contract it to the leaft charge is poffible; having“all thefe helps and lights, and to adde nothing there- to were a fhame to. amingenious man. _. Jwill therefore take.a thort Beam, deeper one'way than a~ The defcripti- Hother, of a: cougtrarididry young Ath, betwixt five foot ; onof the plain and fix foot:long, riling inthe Conlter-hole, and ftrong Bion: theres but: thence declining both wayes for ftrength , and fo growing {maller, wrought round and fmooth, my Sheath moft exaGly fitted. into theBeam, ‘and’ pitched pretty for- svard, ‘and-driven|up fo:clofe wich a’ lithe lace'for bragget put behindithe Sheath into the Beam and'Sheath, jaft bur- ting at both ends when the Sheath is driven up, : which ‘thall ftand asa Buttrelsito fupportity and may be asferviceable as an Iron. dogas many ule; my nearer Handle put upon a Tennant through the fame, andsdrawn: clofe withtwo or three wooderi pins; and'then both Sheath and Handle ‘T en- * nanted exceeding clofe into the ‘Head’, being about two foot long, not ftanding upright nor: level, ‘but Beam- handle and Sheath hanging from a'perpendicular poynt one ion ‘a aa axth:
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