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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    The beft land for Woa¢, a Belt known ‘What price for goud that very warm ,earth, either alittle gravellith or fandih will doe, exceeding well, burche purer. warmer folid earth is beft : Land exceeding richy and chough it fhould be mixed witha little clay will doe well, but ic muft be very warm. There isnot much land. fit for this defign in many Coun- tries, efpecially your kardeft Wood-land parts, you have in many of ,your great, deep, rich paftares, many hils and hill fides good. Woad-ground, when the bottom ground. will doe no fervice, but your chieteft is your home-clofes , or leffer ground lying near and bordering about the towns, Your beft and naturalleft parts of England. for Woad , are Oxford{biresGloucefter{bire,Northampton{bire,Leicefter(bire, fome part of Rutland, Bedford{bire, and Buckingham(bire, and fome other places here and there, all thefe parts have fome admi- rable Woad-Jand in them. , But when it isa quick commodity, as nowit is dull, they will findas much more land: as now they will, and then more indifferent, dry, found, warm Jand will ferve, but very dry and found-it muft be, and worth about twenty fhillings an Acre to grafe at leaft, or elfeit will not bee worth the Woading.. And to plow to fow. Woad itmay be worth as much more as to grafe, yea fomewhat more if it be extraordinary rich foyl, and trading good, but now as the feafonsare, and trading ftands,. they will now make great orts of land, and not bid. any money for that which in goodtrading times they would: have gone fifty miles to have took at great rates. , And whereasfome write that it undoeth the land, I an- {wer as I judge inmy ownbreaft, that in regard it is fo often cut, andgroweth fo thick, and is fo often weeding , that ic muftneeds do fo,as | beleeve al] Corn dothdraw forch fome of the fpirit thereof, bute no more than other Grain vvould if it could be fo oft cut up to growagain. But itisthe confidenceof many Woade-men that will Maintain againft.any man that.ie betters. the land and mends
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