1 8 9. Of peas arid beans. 



he shall passe the good grounde, and haue but lyttel 

 corne : but that countrey is not for men to kepe husban- 

 dry vppon, but for to rere and brede catell or shepe, for 

 Wwfth ^° ^^^^^ *^®y muste go beate theyr landes with mattockes, 

 as they do in many places of Cornewayle, and in som 

 places of Deuonshyre. 



mattocks. 



row, 



9. ^ To plowe for pease and beanes. 



beans^"*^ Howe to plowe for pees and beanes, were necessarye 



to knowe. Fyrst thou muste remember, whiche is 



[Foi.:8.] mooste cley-grounde, and that plowe fyrste, and lette 



4 it lye a good space, er thou sowe it : bycause the 



froste, the rayne, the wynde, and the sonne may cause 



it to breake smalle, to make moche molde, and to 



fu^re fur "^^^^^ ''*^- -^""^ to plow a square forowe, the bredthe 



8 and the depenes all one, and to laye it close to his 



felow. For the more forowes, the more corne, for a 



generall rule of all maner of cornes. And that may 



be proued at the comynge vp of all maner of corne, 



12 to stande at the landes ende and loke toward the other 



ende ; And than may ye se, howe the corne groweth. 



10. ^ Howe to sowe bothe pease and beanes. 



Sowing of Thou shalt sowe thy peas vpon the cley-grounde, 



peas and 



beans. and thy beanes vpon the barley-grounde : for they 



wolde haue ranker grounde than pease. How-be-it 

 4 some husbandes holde opynion, that bigge and styffe 

 grounde, as cley, wolde be sowen with bigge stuffe, 

 as beanes ; but me thynke the contrary. For if a dry 

 sommer come, his beanes wil be shorte. And if the 

 8 grounde be good, putte the more beanes to the pease, 

 and the better shall they yelde, whan they be thresshed. 



