feei did out grow ic. Helikewife for warmer, parts* 

 as I: (Tex and Kent thinks mid- March a g^teniefcE 

 fe.tion tor loving it: If weeds grow therein they care- 

 fully weed their crop and pull it in dry v. either 

 when it lookes yello v , left growing oyer ripe ic 

 bla.ken and mildew, and tve it up in, h:mdfulls that; 

 u may perfectly dry .Then they ripple it, is, that they 

 get oat the feeds by drawing it through an. 1 ngine 

 hke an iron double tooth combe , ^hicrjthey call a 

 "Tipple: the boles or. feed pulled off, they lay on a 

 boirded o; phyilerd tlooretodry, it being dryed 

 rhey lay it up and threili it nor out of the boles tijl 

 Marsh j Alien they winno.v it cieun from the.huskes. 

 The .watering of it is thus : The Flax being well 

 dryed, the v bind up about 20 hancfulls in a bundle 

 an, 1 putting mmy of theft bundles together they {lake 

 them do.vn in the water, tin it they may not be carryed 

 awry by the Streame. The flax abides in water 4 or 5 

 dayes and nights, then they fu read it on the graile 

 rhat it may dry,turning it every 3 dayes, and when it 

 is full dryed they lay it up and houfe it.and when they 

 fee their occahon they life their Brake and Crack , 

 inftrumencs deviled for the purpofe to bring the Tow 

 from the Flax! The whole Government and hus- 

 bandry of hemp from the feed ro the difiaffe is fo like 

 this of Flax trnt the fame example and rule may very 

 Well ferve for both. 



Woad Recording to Uv,Biiths direct on s,ls beR fow- 

 ed where you fovy your Barly or Gates, upon that very 

 hufb-mdry or tilth, about the middle of March, and 

 may grow up among the Corn becaufe it groweth noE 

 tul'tnehrit "rummer, but after the Corn is cut ic 

 iimll bs prefcrvvd 3 ij requires a rich^nd warme foil* 



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