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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    fowed, when and where you fow ycur Barley or Oats upon that Husbandry without any other: addicion, unlefs you draw a buth over it, or a role, either of which is fufficient to cover it after you have fowed it, the difficulteft peece in the managing hereof is the very fowing of ic, that is, that ic may befowed even ; forthe feed being fovery {mal], will require both skill and an evenhand to (catter ic; fome fow it by ta- king it with one finger andthe thumb, others withthe two fore-fingers and the thumb, but neither of thefe dol affcc& thebeft way, becaufe they cannot {pread it fo well as they may with their wholehand, I therefore prefcribe a mixture with Athes, Lime, fine earth or fome fuch thing as will beft fuit with the weight of the feed;for could you find out that, that agreed both in weight and bignefs , then out of all ueftion none to that to fow ic withall. A gallon of this feed will fow:an Acre, which had need How much to every quart of feed have two gallons of fome of the afore- oweth an aere. faid, and it muft be often ftirred together left thatthe feed finkto the bottom, and fo that part fow thicker than the o- ther, andthen caft ic out atarmsend at as good andeven compafs as you can poffibly. This feed thus fowed may grow up among the Corn, and yet be no prejudice, becaufe it growech not faft the firft Summer; but after the Corn is cut it mutt be pre- ferved. ; And thenext Summer you fhall receive through Gods bleffing a comfortable crop; you muft be exceedingly curious of the ripening of it, ifyou let it grow too long, your feed will fall out, it not long enough, your feed will not be per- fe&, nor your ftalk neither ; andtherefore obferve both the turning of the feed, and the ripening of the ftalk ; for I can= not tel you which of either will admic of a difpenfation,and When ripe. as foon ag ever you perceive it near up to perfect ripenefs,you muft down withit, thatis, pulf ic as youdoe Flax up by the roots, and bind it in lictle handfuls, and fet it up to dry in litcle ftilches or ftitches, untill both feed and ftalk be both dry, and then carried away carefully as that the feed be not loft, andJayd up dry, and.fo kept as you fee caufe for a good P market;
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