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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    brake which bruifes and coughens;the harl thateuts and divides out the coare, if you ficft, ic may cut your well dryed flax beft, yet the brake firft, _ Uhefe things are common. and know Countries, .but..niot-to all, Chap.42/ ‘Reducement, of Lavdto Priftine Feetality) “Lands: moft capable thereof... _ mont suse ft will-coft the workmanthip of it, betwixt three and four pound. an. Acre. to bring -it.up to. fale, it Iyeth much upon ithe. workemans hand; and more toxbee advanced, by, how. much the. more. ic railech imployment. ifor inany people. to live thereby, | here wages is great,: sit comes off thehardeft ;: yer where jt -is carried-oh to purpote, people flock hard that Want worke; and becaufe of conflaac cy; will. worke at calle tearmes, elfe how could they poflibly. doe good of it at London, or neer about it, where they work at donble rates, but there have] feen the beft flax J ever {aw. 4- Laftly, the benefit that may be made hereby, an A- creof good flax, may be worth upon the ground, if ic be the firtt Eait-Couniry feed, feven ot eight, yea, pofa fibly ten or twelve pound, yea, farre more, the charge whereof befide the feed, untill jt beeripe, may not be a= bove ten fhillings an Acre, which if you worke up tobe fit to fell in the Market, it may come up to fifteen, or fixteen,or neer twen ty pound in the market,but to bring ic fo.high, as thirty pound, as in Flanders, 1 dare not fay. uc an-Acre of our Country feed, will hardly come up to above three pound or foure pound an Acre; unle(s very good indeed, to which if it amount unto, and no mofe upon the Land, ic will make a good advancement of the Land, which may be, Land, and Seed, and all charges, may come to about fifteene or fixteene fhil- lings an Acre, the feed beiig not worth above two fhil- lings a ftrike. : I thall fay thus much more; that] verily believe wee are not Come up to that perfection, we may attain unto in this myftery , becaufe I have heard of {ome Gentlewomen, that have Place this leaf before L] 2 Folio 259. LS LIF The charge of the fax from till it come to the Market,
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