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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    nearer fide, or left-hand, one furrow breadth wider than the other, juft in the very fame pofture both for depth and breadth as the other doth, and fo held off from the firtt ploughs beam bya lining, or filling of wood juft that fut ftanceas may continue it firm and fatt to a jut furrow , “and there drawn clofe and firm to that Mafter-beam with tvvo height or depth, whichit muft needs do, and this I conceive may be beft ufed with a plough-foot to guide the depth of it, unlefs you place a wheel to that foremoft Beam, but not in afalfe Beam, becaufe I have not experience of applying this doublenefs to thofe deep pitched ploughs, but in the end of that beam you may haveas good amorte(s as your beam will bear, which is the mortefs for the foot, and there« i you may place a {quare good ftrong peece of tough Ath, or rather of Iron, into which you may have your Iron Axel- tree with its {quare end fitted into three or four feveral] holes of it, by which means you may fet your plough at a working gage, and there continue it, and alter it as you fee caufe; which ploughthus miarfhalled, you may well plovv upon ordinary errable land-that is in good tillage a double proportion, and alfo upon fair clean lay Turf, -and this you may manage with two men, and four good horfes, but not either upon ftony land, or rough land, the defcription and difcourte wherof I give not in as of any great advantage above the other plain plough, but for variety fake, and to pro- voke others to the amendment and perfecting of this diico- very ; yet I for prefent fee not, but it may be of excellent ufe and expedition upon many Jands in England; and to fay much moreisneedlefs, in regard of what hath been be- fore fpoken, and experience ofa good Ploughman will order it at pleafure. And {fo I fhall onely difcover one other plough that will and it is ufed in feveral] places in Norfolk , yet calting
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