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and if the bushel be large there is great deceit. If the 

 return of your grange only yields three times the seed 

 sown you will gain nothing unless corn sells well. 



Foe how much you shall sow an acre. 



You know surely that an acre sown with wheat takes 

 three ploughings, except lands which are sown yearly ; and 

 that, one with the other, each ploughing is worth sixpence, 

 and harrowing a penny, and on the acre it is necessary to 

 sow at least two bushels. Now two bushels at Michaelmas 

 are worth at least twelvepence, and weeding a halfpenny, 

 and reaping fivepence, and carrying in August a penny ; 

 the straw will pay for the threshing. At three times your 

 sowing you ought to have six bushels, worth three shillings, 

 and the cost amounts to three shillings and three halfpence, 

 and the ground is yours and not reckoned. 



HOW YOU OUGHT TO CHANGE YOUR SEED. 



Change your seed every year at Michaelmas, for seed 

 grown on other ground will bring more profit than that 

 which is grown on your own. Will you see this ? Plough 

 two selions at the same time, and sow the one with seed 

 which is bought and the other with corn which you have 

 grown : in August you will see that I speak truly. 



HOW YOU OUGHT TO KEEP AND PREPARE MANURE. 



Do not sell your stubble or take it from the ground if you 

 do not want it for thatching ; if you take away the least you 

 will lose much. Good son, cause manure to be gathered 

 in heaps and mixed with earth, and cause your sheepfold 

 to be marled every fortnight with clay land or with good 

 earth, as the cleansing out of ditches, and then strew it over. 



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