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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    and finding not how ic will fo well fuice with our common waycs of Husbandry as to bea general! advantage, fhal] fay the lefs, only tell youthe manner of it, It is a common light Plough, asall theirs are, and as Jittle and light a Harrow, which may contain three little Buls, and about five Tines in a Bull, which is madelight allo, and fixed tothe plough at the one end of the Beam, fo that as the plough turns this turns alfo, and as the plough turns one furrow, the harrow harrows it over, reaching cwo morefurrows, and fo by the over-reaching it ftrikes two or three times in one place 5 which is fufhicient for the covering any corn whatfoever fhall be fowen upon Norfolk lands; but finding thefe two prejudi- ces againft ic, viz. either this land muft be fowed as the land is plowed, & fo it will take up a mans time fowing an Acre, when otherwife a man will fow nine orten Acres of one day, orelfe icmuft be fowed before plowing, and then it muft be plowed in, and harrowed upon the top of it, which falsnot under my experience, having known much Plough, har- andallin ove ry, than ifonely lightly covered with the plough, and layd more open; and now. thou haft the ftory , that {uch a thing is, and may bedone, may thy own experience be the deter- miner of the matter : bue after the writing hereof having communicated thus much to a Gentleman ofart and worth, do find that another addition may be made thereto, which is how todrop the corn, corn by corn proportionably to that quantity I defire to fowuponan Acre, which if by his afliftance I can experimentally make out, I fear not to give with three horfes upon all of this nature, and all tobe done almoft within the fame compafs of time that you are upon the plowing of it, ic fhall not require one hourin the day more; which if I fhall accomplith, you fhall fave near three parts of your feed alfo, and a confiderable peece of labour too, and noe fail to have a better crop through the blefing of him that waters all, than ordinary wife.All which I hope to have brought into fubftantiall experience upon isabdas & an $
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