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Octobers husbandrie. 
Much wetnes, hog rooting, and land out of hart, 
makes thistles a number foorthwith to vpstart. 
If thistles so growing prooue lustie and long, 
it signifieth land to be hartie and strong. 
As land full of tilth and in hartie good plight, 
yeelds blade to a length and encreaseth in might, 
So crop vpon crop, vpon whose courage we doubt, 
yeelds blade for a brag, but it holdeth not out. 
The straw and the eare to haue bignes and length, 
betokeneth land to be good and in strength. 
If eare be but short, and the strawe be but small, 
it signifieth barenes and barren withall. 
White wheat or else red, red riuet or whight, 
far passeth all other, for land that is light. 
White pollard or red, that so richly is set, 
for land that is heauie is best ye can get. 
Maine wheat that is mixed with white and with red 
is next to the best in the market mans hed: 
So Turkey or Purkey wheat many doe loue, 
because it is flourie, as others aboue. 
Graie wheat is the grosest, yet good for the clay, 
though woorst for the market, as fermer may say. 
Much like vnto rie be his properties found, 
coorse flower, much bran, and a peeler of ground. 
Otes, rie, or else barlie, and wheat that is gray, 
brings land out of comfort, and soone to decay : 
One after another, no comfort betweene, 
is crop vpon crop, as will quickly be seene. 
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