17. How to spread dung. 27 



17. % To cary out donge or mucke and to sprede it. [Foi. 143.] 

 And in the later ende of Aprj'll, and the begynnynge of 

 Maya, is tyme to cary out his dounge or mucke, andc^anyout 

 to lay it vppon his barley-grounde. And where he hath 

 4 barley this yere, sowe it with whete or rj'e the next 

 tyme it is falowed, and so shal he mucke all his landes 

 ouer at euerye seconde falowe. But that husbande that 

 can fynd the meanes to cary oute his donge, and to laye 

 8 it vpon his lande after it be ones sturred : it is moche Lay dung on 



^ the land 



better than to laye it vppon his falowe, for dyuer causes, f ft^"" ^K 



■' *^' ■' nrststimng. 



One is, if it be layde vpon his fallowe, all that fallethe 

 in the holowe r}^gge shall do lyttell good ; for whan 



12 it is rj'gged agayne, it lyeth soo depe in the erthe, that 

 it wyll not be plowed vp agayne, excepte that whan he 

 hath sprede it, he wyll with a shouell, or a spade, caste 

 out all that is fallen in the rygge. And if it be layde 



16 vpon the sturrynge, at euery plowynge it shall medle and soon 

 the donge and the erthe togj'der, the whiche shall "°g- 

 cause the corne moche better to growe and encreace. 

 And in somme places, they lode not theyr donge, 



20 tyll harvest be done, & that is vsed in the farther 



syde of Darbyshyre, called Scaresdale, HalomshjTe, [Foi. 15.] 

 and so northewarde towarde Yorke and Ryppon : and 

 that I calle better thanne vppon the falowe, and specyally 



24 for barley : but vppon the fyrste sturr}'nge, is beste 

 for wheate and rye, and that his dunge be layde vpon 

 smal hepes nygh together, and to sprede it euenly, and Spread it 

 to leue no dounge there-as the mucke-hepe stode, for ^'^^ ^' 



28 the moystnes of the dounge shall cause the grounde to 



be ranke ynoughe. And if it be medled with erthe, Mixitwith 

 as sholynges and suche other, it wyll laste the longer, 

 and better for barley than for whete or rye, bycause of 



32 wedes. Horse-donge is the worste donge that is. The 

 donge of all maner catell, that chewe theyr cudde, 

 is verj-e good. And the dounge of douues is best, Doves'dong. 

 but it must be layde vppon the grounde verye thynne. 



