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Chap. XXiii. 



of the diver fe quilities oft he foile, Alfo^ the mmner i^f dunging Or 

 manuring grounds* 



F you meet with a ground of your ownejwhieh wee called heretofore by the name of Tenara, 

 the floure indeed and principall of all others : after you have taken off a crop of Barley, you 

 may very well low Millet thereupon : and when that is inned and laid up in the barne,procecd 

 to Raddifli. Laft of alljafter they bee drawnCjthere may bee Barley or common Wheat fowed in 

 the place,likc as they doe in Caropaine i for furely fuch a peece of ground needs no other tillage, 

 but often fowing. Another order there is befides this in lowing of fuch Ibilc, namely,that where p|i 

 there grew the red wheat Adoreum or Far, there the ground lliould reft all the foure Winter 

 nionethsjand in theSpringbefbwedagainewithBeanes jfothatit alwaiesbeemploied &kepc 

 occupied untill Winter without any intermiflTion. And fay that the ground be not altogether fo 

 fat, yet it may be ordered fo,that it be ever bearing by turnes in this fort, that after the Frumcn- 

 lie or Spike corn betaken off,there be pulfe fowed three timcsjonc after another.But in cafe the 

 groundbe over poore and leane,it muft beefuffered to reft and take repofe two yeares in three. 

 Moreover,many Husbandrtien do hold, that it is not good to fo w white corne or Frument upon 

 any land,but fuch as lay fallow and refted the yeate belorc. 



However it be,the principall thing in this part of Agriculture,confifteth in dunging-.whercof 

 I have written alreadie in the former booke next to thisiThis one point only is refolved upon by j 

 allmeujthatnoneof our grounds ought to be fowedjUnlefte they bee manured and mucked be- 

 forc.And yet herein muft we b e diretfted by certainc rules peculiar and proper thereuntOjas fol- 

 low. Millet,Panicke,Rapes,Tiirncps or Navewes^ought never to be fowed but in a ground that is 

 dunged.If there bee no compoft laid upon a ground,iow upon it Frument or bread cornejrathei: 

 than Barley .Likewife in grounds that lelt and lie fallow every other yeare, albeit in all mens opi- 

 nioujthey are thought good for to beare BeanesjyetnotwithftandingBcanes love bettetwherc- 

 foever they come to be fowed in a ground but newly mucked.Hee that mindeth to fow at the fajl 

 of the leafe,muft in the month of September bcfore/pread his dung,turne it in with the plough, 

 and fo incorporate it with the foile prefently after a ftowcr of rain.Even fo alfojif a man purpofc 

 tofbw in the Spring,lei him in the Winter time difpofe of his mucke upon the lands and fpread ^ 

 ic.The ordinarie proportion iSjto lay eighteen tumbrels or loads therof upon every acre^Thrown 

 abroad it muft bee alfo before it bee dried, and ere you low, or clfe fo foone as the feed is in tlie 

 ground,that it may be harrowedin with the corne. But in cafe this manner of dunging be ncgle- 

 ded, irfolloweththenjbefore that you doe harrow, to ftrew the fhort fmalldung in manner of 

 duft gathered out ot Coupes, Mues,and Bartons,where ioule are fedjorelfe tocaft Goats-tred- 

 dles upon the land, as if you would fow fced,and then with rakes and harrowes to mingle it with 

 the foile. 



To the end now that we may determine fully as touching this care alfb,bclpnging to dung, 

 every iheepe or goat and fuch fmallcattel]jl"houid by right yeeld ordinarily in dung one load in 

 *or rather (af- ^£en daies : and every head of bigger beafts ten loadifor unlelTe this proportion and quantitie of £ 

 thix£Zies niucke bee gathered, plaine it isjthat the gr^unger or maifter of Husbandrie,hath not done his 

 part,but failed in littering of his cattell.Some hold opinion, that the beft way of mucking a land 

 isjto fold ilieepe and fuch like fmallcattell thereupon, even in the broad open field: and tothis 

 purpofe they enclole ot imparke them within hurclles.In a word,a ground not dunged atall,gro- 

 weth to be cold rand againe if it be overmuch dunged,thc heart therof is burned away. And thcr- 

 forc the better and fafer way is to mucke by little at once and often, rather than to overdoe it at 

 oncc.The hotter that a foile is,itftands by good reafoujthatthe IclTecompoft it requireth. 



Chap. XXiiii. 



p-^ of good feed.c0rne , The manner pf (owing ground welL How much feed of ever j kind of ^ 

 grdne An me will take. The due feafons of SeedneSi 



He bcft corne or Zea for feed, is of one yeares age, two yeares old is not fb good : that of 

 three,is worft of all; for beyond that timcj the heart is dead, and fuch corn will never fpurt. 



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