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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    oa = ——_- 2 = — = Se aa -— << oF +2. US? > — 2, Ghap. 41, Reducement of Land to priffine Fertility, 533 as pulled, andgathered; butificbe wrought up, itmay come to eight, nine, ten, or twelve pound, or more, itis a common thingin ufe, every one knowes the manner of Ic maintaines many people in a good implcyment, and oughtto have more publike incouragement given to ie, not fo much becaufe of its advance of land, as the poore people of the Land. : CHAP. XLIif. ' Ouely [peakes to the busbandrying Flax, fo as to - make it come up to as much of the improve ment as wee Cans. Lax, it isa very good Commodity, and fhali endeavour to incourage all ingenuous men, | that delight in the common good, thereto, as much as may bee ; efpecially all fuch as have fuitablelardstherefore, upon thisac- count, becaufe it is, as] may callit, a root; or foundation of advantage , upon the profperity whereof, . depends the maintenance of thoufands of people in good, honeft; and laborious callings: and were but this very peece of husbandry advanced, the fowing and raifing of it, according to the capacity the lands of this Nation will afford; I dare affirm to hold it forth againft the ftouteft : opponent, that it would maintaine neare all the wanting people of this Nation. A volume istoo little to containe this vaft Difcourfe; yet'take an abflrakt of ic, which forthe - more methodicall demonftcation, fhall be held forth under | thefe heads-: I. The feveral! Lands capable of improvement hereby .. 2. Ihe many people capable of imployment hereby... 3. The beftexperiences of planting and raifing tothe - belt advantage. 7
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