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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 7 



corne, nepinough, the harvest and fall of leafe, 

 laquitock. From September vntill the midst of 

 November are the chiefe feasts and sacrifice. 

 Then haue they plentie of fi-uiis as well |)lanted 

 as naturail, as corne, ijreene and ripe, fish, lovvle, 

 and wilde beasts exceeding liit. 



The greatest labour they take, is in planting 

 their corne, lor the country naturally is overgrovvne 

 with wood. To prepare the ground they bruise 

 the barke of the trees neare the root, then doe 

 they scorfch the roots with fire that they grow no 

 more. The next yeare with a crooked peece o( 

 wood they beat vp the weeds by the rootes, and in 

 that mould they plant their corne. Their manner is 

 this. They make a hole in the earih with asticke, 

 and into it they putfbure graines of wheate* and 

 two of beanes. These holes they make foure 

 foote one from another; their women and chil- 

 dren do continually keepe it with weeding, and 

 when it is growne middle high, they hill it about 

 like a hop-yard. 



In April they begin to plant, but their chiefe 

 plantation is in May, and so they continue till the 

 midst of lune. What they plant in April they 

 reape in August ; for May in September, lor lune 

 in October : every stalke of their corne common- 

 ly beareth two eares, some three, seldome any 

 fbure, many but one, and some none, Es^ery eare 

 ordinarily hath betwixt 200 and 500 graines. The 

 Btalke being greene hath a sweet Uiice in it, some- 

 what like a sugar cane, which is the cause that 

 when they gather their corne greene, they sucke 

 the stalkes: lor as we gather greene pease, so doe 

 they their corne being greene, which excelleth 

 their old. They plant also pease they call Assen- 

 tamens, which are the same they call in Italy, Fa- 

 gioli. Their beanes are the same the Turkes call 

 garnanses, but these they much esteeme lor dain- 

 ties. 



Their corne they rost in (he eare greene, and 

 bruising it in morter of wood with a polt, lap it in 

 rowles in the leaues of their corne, and so boyle it 

 for a daintie. They also reserue that corne late 

 planted that will not ripe, by roasting it in hot 

 ashes, the heat thereof drying it. In winter they 

 esteeme it being boyled with beanes for a rare 

 dish, they call pausarowmena. Their old wheat 

 they first steepe a night in hot water, in the morn- 

 ing pounding it in a mortar. They vse a small 

 basket for their temmes, then pound atjaine the 

 great, and so separating by dashing their hand in 

 the basket, receiue the flower in a platter made of 

 wood, scraped to that forme with burning and 

 shels. Tempering this flower with water, they 

 make it either in cakes, covering: them with ashes 

 till they be baked, and then washing them in (aire 

 water, they drie presently with their owne heat : 

 or else boyle them in water, eating'the broth with 

 the bread, which they call ponap. The groutes 

 and peeces of the cornes remaining, by fanning in 

 a platter or in the wind, away the branne, ihey 

 boyle three or four houres with water, which is an 

 ordinary food they call vstatahamen.f But some 

 more thrifiie then cleanly, doe burne the corne of 

 the eare to powder, which they call pungnoiigh, 

 mingling that in their meale, but it never tasted 

 well in bread, nor broth. Their fish and flesh they 

 boyle either very tenderly, or boyle it so long on 

 hurdles over the fire, or else after the Spanisli 



* Indian Corn.— Ed. f Hominy.— Ed. 



fashion, putting it on a spit,.they turne first the 

 one side, then the other, till it be as drie as their 

 ierkin beele in the West Indies, that they may 

 keepe it a moneth or more without putrifying. 

 The broth of fish or tlesh they eat as comnjonly 

 as the meat. 



In May also amongst their corne they plant 

 pumpeons, and a fruit like vnto a muske mellon, 

 but lesse and worse, which they call macocks. 

 These increase exceeding!}^, and ripen in the be- 

 ginning of luly, and continue vntil September, 

 They plant also n)aracocks, a wild fruit like a lem- 

 mon, which also increase infinitely. They begin 

 to ripe in September, and continue until the end 

 of October, when all their fruits be gathered. 

 Little els they plant, and this is done by their wo- 

 men and children ; neither doth this long suffice 

 them, for neare three parts of the yeare, they one- 

 ly obserue times and seasons, and hue of what 

 the country naturally aflbrdeth from hand to 

 mouth, &c. 



The Cmnniodities rn Virginia, or that may be had 

 by Industrie. 



The mildness of the ayre, the fertilitie of the 

 soyle, and situation of the rivers are so propitious 

 to the nature and vse of man, as no place is more 

 convenient for pleasure, .profit, and mans suste- 

 nance, vnder that latitude or climat. Here will 

 Hue any beasts, as horses, goats, sheepe, asses, 

 hens, &c. as appeared by them that were carried 

 thether. The waters, isles, and shoales, are full 

 of sale harbours for ships of warre or merchandize, 

 for boats of all sorts, lor transportation or fishing, 

 &c. The bay and riuers have much marchanta- 

 ble fish, and places fit lor salt coats, building of 

 ships, making of iron, &c. 



Muscovia and Polonia doe yearly receiue many 

 thousands, for pitch, tarre, soap-ashes, rosea, flax, 

 cordaije, sturgeon, masts, yards, wainscot, firres, 

 glasse, and such like ; also Svvethland for iron 

 and copper. France in like manner, for wine, 

 canvas and salt. Spaine as much for iron, Steele, 

 figges, reasons, and sackes. Italy with silkes and 

 velvets consumes our chiefe commodities. Holland 

 maintaines it selfii by fishing and trading at our 

 owne doores. All these temporize with other for 

 necessities, but all as vncertaine as peace or 

 vvarres. Besides the charge, travell, and danger 

 in transporting them, by seas, lands, stormes, and 

 pyrats. Then how much hath Virginia the pre- 

 rogatiueof all those flourishing kingdomes, for the 

 benefit of our land, when as within one hundred 

 myles all those are to be had, either ready provi- 

 ded by nature, or else to be prepared, were th.ere 

 but industrious men to labour. Onely of copper 

 we may doubt is wanting, but there is good proba- 

 bilitie that both copper and better minerals are 

 there to be had for their labour. Other countries 

 haue it. So then there is a place, a nurse for soul- 

 diers, a practise for mariners, a trade for mar- 

 chants, a reward for the good, and that which is 

 most of all, a businesse (most acceptable to God) 

 to bring such poore infidels to the knowledge of 

 God and his holy gospell. 



PAPER VEIVEERTXG. 



We yesterday examined an elegant piece of fur- 

 niture veneered with marble paper, in imitation of 

 rose wood. The imitation was so perlcct and the 



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