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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    market ; for it is to be fold for the Dyars ufe, who fometimes will givea very gocd price, but at all times fufficient profit, and go far tobuy it, from forty fhillings an Acre, to ten or twelve pound an Acre, fome fay more. And you may barn itup, and keep icand the feed together until. March,and then you may get out this feed by lafhing or whipping of it forth upona board or door, which referve for feed ; thefeed is of 100d value, fometinses worth twenty fhillings a buthell, and fometime ten fhillings a buthell, and fometimes more or lefs as markets rife and falls It colonreth the bright yellow and the Lemon colour; The ftalk and root are both ufefull, and muft: go together to the Dyar, ieee : And if this Wecd profper well, as queftionlefs ic will af- ter you be got into good teed, this will make good my pro- VVhatIm- mife,ific prove worth but fourcy fhillings per Acre, the land provement. beingnot worth above five fhillings, or fix fhillings & eight welde yeeldeth pence, as either of thefe will do exceeding well; the charges of fowing , and all things till you come to pulling it, is not above one fhilling per Acre; the pulling, whiping, and barning may come to four fhillings more; the feed may be worth half a crown, fo that al} charges and rent of the land may amcunt unto lefs, but I will fay fifteen fhillings, then the Improvement wil] be fourfold , if worth four pound ten fhillingsan Acre, fixfold, if worth fix pound per Acre, eight fold, end much more,as {ome affirm to fixteenfold Improve- ment. This Land though it lie far from Towns, Cities, yea in in your remoteft Countries may be brought to this height of Improvement , and it begins much to fpread and thrives ve- ry well in Kent in many parts of it; the beft place forto get the feed isin Kent clean down to Canterbury and Wy, where you may fee both the land, the growth and difcover the myftery chereof. It is fold by weight fo much a hundred, and {fo mucha tun weight. Itis my defire to make publique whatever comes under my experience, yet this hath been ufed this many years by many private Gentlemen in divers parts, but not difcovered for publique pra&tice, but no marvel, for: that ow toufe it.
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