The reformed husband-man, or a brief treatise of the errors, defects, and inconveniences of our English husbandry, in ploughing and sowing for corn : with the reasons and general remedies, and a large, yet faithful offer or undertaking for the benefit of them that will joyn in this good and publick work / imparted some years ago to Mr. Samuel Hartlib. And now by him re-imparted to all ingenuous English-men, that are willing to advance the prosperity, wealth and plenty of their native countrey.

Samuel Hartlib

Date:: 1651

Credit: The reformed husband-man, or a brief treatise of the errors, defects, and inconveniences of our English husbandry, in ploughing and sowing for corn : with the reasons and general remedies, and a large, yet faithful offer or undertaking for the benefit of them that will joyn in this good and publick work / imparted some years ago to Mr. Samuel Hartlib. And now by him re-imparted to all ingenuous English-men, that are willing to advance the prosperity, wealth and plenty of their native countrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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ya . i Ra, F 7 ie, - #) AA4 fi re f ¢ f L ADP at te £ Et ENE] U “GLAMIS OCGUU- tail bi ee Be a se E.. yepati’d by the branching, a tian would wonder-to find the increafe not come to.above 2co0a0. for 4000 fowed.; whereas in all reafon he ‘cannot expect léfle then Goo80, and not without t. tit . : : sood and. probable reafon ‘he might hopeto receive tor nis 4000, i « & 7 fowed- 96000 ; na” lied set SF @ Beam ohare h: rh hear {aid ce 4 1 folk Far eret AS A Ke trom what natn peen fata it 18 Manirese , flat either more Corns are at firft loft, whieh is very probable: or that they branch nor, nor come to che fuppofed perfection; each devouring other; andthe weeds preying toon all ;-which ismoltlikely ;.and to me certain caufe of the aforefaid {mall return. This is ernie of all forts of ground,as well of Ley or NeWw-broken sound as of Old tifage: but in chis difcourfey I will call chis the miftake , or defect in Trllage- land, (not thatthe erroris:at all ae mended in New-broken-Land, bue is racher-made much: Wer/e') but for chat | amtocomplain of an another grand errer pecu liar to New Lana, vics New-breken Sround che firlt year is flifte ; and to (ule the Husband-mans phrafe) rifes trecch : -from whence we have taken wp-an evil fafhion co fowe Oares the firft year, pre- tending (not without caufe, as they order the matter, ) that noe ther grain can bé fown'for want of mould co cover it, which they affirm ; and that traly enough their HarreWes will rae on fuch a clunge Tarf: and even for Oats, they are fain to let it lie inthe froft after it is ploughed, many dayes or rather weekstorot, or make it a litrlemoulder, and hardly enough to cover Oates; when allis.done. | | Thus, s the firft (and beyond peradventure, if rightly ufed, the beft ) Cropin a mannerfpotled: for a Crop of Oates fo lowed can never come to any great matter, or 1f indo, what would Wheat have yielded , if char had fit taken pofleflion? (Were: that ehis ts meantin quantity, netin quality: for sf Wheat foowld be fowed, the firft year wrthont great care and skill ; the better ground thelean- er the grain: he therefore that will [owe Wheat the fi year , mule Pemes the bé mafer of hiseArt:) and Oats of all Gratin is the moft unfit ro fowe inany good srounc; but ro fowe them the firlt year in New- breken ground, is co {poile allthe Crops that follow - for Oates never fail to hake, nor to come up again amongit the next Crop ; and fo in the next and the next, cc. more or lefle,co the blemifh- ans

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