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of fallow and of sown land; it is that you may know 

 how much corn you ought to have altogether ; how much 

 stock, how much seed the land ought to yield. Know 

 that each ploughland bears poorly that does not yield a 

 hundred seams of corn, then of so many ploughlands as you 

 have, so many hundreds of quarters at the least you ought 

 to have, or be sure that the land is badly tilled, or falsely 

 sown, or the corn stolen. If you have then forty plough- 

 lands, you ought to have four thousand quarters of corn, 

 if fifty, five thousand, and so on. Know that each acre of 

 fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then 

 a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, 

 two hundred acres four hundred sheep, and so on. If you 

 know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, 

 inquire how much the acre of that soil of land takes for 

 sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you 

 shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. 



The twenty-fifth eule teaches you two eules foe sell- 

 ing AND THEESHING YOUE COEN. 



Observe two rules with regard to selling and threshing 

 corn : that there be no corn sold that the straw does not re- 

 main to strew the sheepfolds daily and to make manure in the 

 court. And be sure that the straw so kept will be always worth 

 the half of the corn sold. For the other part do not in any 

 wise let anyone thresh oats before Christmas, neither for 

 provender nor for sale before all is bought, if you can, and 

 after Christmas, when one begins to sow oats, cause your 

 oats to be threshed, and that straw so newly threshed will 

 be as good if a little is mixed with hay. All hay and straw 

 give great strength to your oxen and vigour to work. And 

 understand well that if you wish to sell oats then you shall 

 be able to sell better and take more, when it is necessary 

 that each may have to sow. 



