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34. How to sozu wheat and rye. 



In Essex a 

 child sows. 



He ought to 

 have much 

 discretion. 



.Sow 2 

 London 

 bushels to 

 an acre. 



[Fol. 25.] 



Wheat and 

 rye mixed. 



Flaxen 

 wheat. 



Pollard 

 wheat. 



White 

 ■wheat. 



Red wheat. 



English 

 wheat. 



Peek-wheat. 

 [Fol. 25*.] 



8 fourthe yere. And in Essex they vse to haue a chylde, 

 to go in the forowe before the horses or oxen, with a 

 bagge or a hopper full of corne : and he taketh his hande 

 full of corne, and by lyttel and lytel casteth it in the 



12 sayde forowe. Me semeth, that chylde oughte to haue 

 moche dyscretion. 



Howe-be-it there is moche good corne, and rye is 

 mooste commonlye sowen aboue and harrowed, and two 



1 6 London busshelles of wheate and rye wyll sowe an acre. 

 Some grounde is good for wheate, some for rye, and 

 some is good for bothe : and vppon that ground sowe 

 blend-come, that is both wheate and rye, the whyche is 



20 the surest corne of growyng, and good for the husbandes 

 houshold. And the wheate, that shall be medled with 

 rye, muste be suche as wyll soone be rype, and that is 

 flaxen wheate, polerd wheate, or whyte wheate. And ye 



24 shall vnderstande, that there be dyuers maners of wheates. 

 Flaxen wheate hath a yelowe eare, and bare without anis, 

 and is the bryghtest wheate in the busshell, and wyll 

 make the whytest breed, and it wyll weare the grounde 



28 sore, and is small strawe, and wyll growe very thycke, 

 and is but small corne. Polerde wheate hath noo anis, 

 thycke sette in the eare, and wyll soone fall out, and is 

 greatter corne, and wyll make whyte breed. Whyte 



32 wheate is lyke polerde wheate in the busshell, but it 

 hath anis, and the eare is foure-square, and wyll make 

 white breed : and in Essex they call flaxen wheate 

 whyte wheate. Red wheate hath a flat eare, an inche 



36 brode, full of anis, and is the greatteste corne, and 

 the brodeste blades, and the greatteste strawe, and 

 wyl make whyte breed, and is the rudeste of colour 

 in the busshell. 



40 Englysshe wheate hath a dunne eare, fewe anis or none, 

 and is the worste wheate, saue peeke-wheate. Peeke- 

 wheete hath a red eare, ful of anis, thyn set, and ofte 

 tymes it is flyntered, that is to saye, small corne wrynkeled 



