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15. How to harrow corn. 



Observe 

 how thick to 

 sow. 



maketh it to beare quyche. A yonge housbande ought to 

 take hede, howe thycke he sowethe all maner of come, 

 two or three yeres : and to se, howe it cometh vp, and 



20 whether it be thycke ynoughe or not : and if it be thynne, 

 sowe thycker the nexte yere : and if it be well, holde his 

 hande there other yeres : and if it be to thynne, let hym 

 remember hym selfe, whether it be for the vnseason- 



24 ablenes of the wether, or for thyn sowynge. And so 

 his wysedome and discretion muste discerne it. 



15. ^ To harowe all maner of cornes. 



[Fol. 12^.] 



Harrowing. 



The ox-har- 

 row. 

 Harrow- 

 bulls. 



The horse- 

 harrow. 



' The ox is 

 never woe, 

 Till he to the 

 harrow go.' 



[Fol. 13.] 



Nowe these landes be plowed, and the corne sowen, it 

 is conuenient, that they be well harowed ; or els crowes, 

 doues, and other byrdes wyll eate and beare awaye the 



4 cornes. It is vsed in many countreys, the husbandes to 

 haue an oxe-harowe, the whiche is made of sixe smal 

 peces of timbre, called harowe-buDes, made eyther of 

 asshe or oke ; they be two yardes longe, and as moche as 

 8 the small of a mannes legge, and haue shotes ' of wode 

 put through theym lyke lathes, and in euery bull are syxe 

 sharpe peces of yren called harowe-tyndes, set some-what 

 a-slope forwarde, and the formes[t] slote'* must be bygger 



12 than the other, bycause the fote-teame shall be fastened 

 to the same with a shakyll, or a withe to drawe by. This 

 harrowe is good to breake the greatte clottes, and to make 

 moche molde, and than the horse-harowes to come after, 



16 to make the clottes smaller, and to laye the grounde euen. 

 It is a greate labour and payne to the oxen, to goo to 

 harowe : for they were better to goo to the plowe two 

 dayes, thanne to harowe one daye. It is an olde saying, 



20 ' The oxe is neuer wo, tyll he to the harowe goo.' And 

 it is bycause it goeth by twytches, and not alwaye 

 after one draughte. The horse-harrowe is made of fyue 

 1 ' slotes ' ? 2 Misprinted • flote.' 



