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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36288	Husbandry anatomized, or, An enquiry into the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part and several rules and measures laid down for the better improvement thereof, in so much that one third part more increase may be had, and yet more than a third part of the expence of the present way of labouring thereof saved / by Ja. Donaldson.	Donaldson, James, fl. 1697-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing D1853; ESTC R10333	43,543	168

as much improven as themselves My reason for it is this when other Beasts are fat and in a good Condition their Hair is v●sibly much softer and smoother Look but to any Horse that is well fed and keeped and to a labouring Horse that is sore wrought and ill fed and you will see what difference is betwixt them and so of all other Beasts And seeing Wool is the Hair that groweth on this Animal Why should it not Improve as much as that of others I doubt nothing if Sheep were fed as plentifully in this Countrey as easily they may be as is shewed above but their Wool may be made as good as readily is had any where else Now let us see what may be yearly made of those 2500 Sheep you know 1000 Lambs was supposed to be had of them every year beside those dying young A 100 let be sold in April or May at 18 Shilling a peece which is 90 pound Four hunder of the oldest and weakest let be sold at Hallowday for two pounds is 80 pounds Four hunder let be keepe up●n your best hained Grass which may be sold I suppose at 5 pound a peece betwixt Candlemas and May is 200 pound proportionable to their Number Their Wool may also be reckoned more in quantity than these that are badly fed for not only is the Wool best on fat Sheep but it is much thicker and longer also I suppose therefore this three hundered and fiftie Sheep and Lamb may not only have as many pounds of Woole but even one Quarter of a pound a peece more which maketh in all four thousand three hundered and seventy five pounds of Wool which is two hundered and seventy five Stone seven pounds reckon this at nine pounds per Stone is two thousand four hundered and fiftie seven pounds in Money The Product of this Mailen Stocked and Ordered as above represented after the Expence of Seed and Labouring the manured Land is deduced as follows Imprimis Corn worth 2960 00 00 Lambs worth 0090 00 00 Sheep sold in Autumn 0800 00 00 Sheep sold in the Spring 1600 00 00 Wool to the Value of 2457 00 00 Summa 4907 00 00 The Product of the Mailen as in the first Description is Imprimis Lambs 0120 00 00 Wool 2070 00 00 Sheep 1800 00 00 Summa 4890 00 00 This 4890 pounds deduced from 7907 there remains 3037 so much more Increase is there by managing this Mailen as I have above demonstrated except 200 pound to be deduced for Shearers Wages and what profit is alleadged to be made of Ewes Milk than was made of it according to the first way of Managing thereof And call that what y● please the Profit is considerable still CHAP. VI. Something Concerning Planting I Shall be as brief as possible in in speaking to this Head Both because I have insisted beyond my Expectation in the foregoing Chapter And also because abundance have been already written on this Subject better than I can pretend to do What I intend here is only to give Husband-men who have not occs●ion to see such books as treat on this subject a short hint of what may concern them in this kind of Labour You may remember I recommended planting as a great mean to help to enrich your Ground and Fruit-trees as very beneficial in respect of their Fruit. The expence of purchassing or upbringing of them is in a manner nothing at all a dayes labour or two of one Man once in the year may bring up a greater Nursary than you will need Take Seed of any kind of Trees you desire to have brought up and dress a little bit of your Garden and sow or plant them there Be sure not to suffer any Weeds to grow amongst them when you sow Seed of Trees and they rise closser than they can well grow together transplant them to another place of your Garden a foot or eight inches distance is enough while they remain in the Plant Bed Plant but one hundered yea half that number every year will soon plant all your hedges When they are about six or eight years old replant them about the borders of your Fields Fruit-t●ees may as easily be brought up as those which are barren only they need to be ingraffed which is done thus When they are full inch thick or tho they be bigger they may be ingraffed also either by cutting of the Branches and ●puting a Graff in the stump of each Branch or yet in the principal Stock which if it be thick must have four or five Graffs the manner of performing is thus either with a Saw or sharp Knife cut your Stock about a foot and a half from the Ground and after you have made it very smooth take and slit it down a pretty bit that it may receive the Graff Your Graff must be Twigs of the handsomest Fruit-trees you can get of one years growth only let an inch and a half or thereby of that which is under the upermost Knot remain with the Twig and that peece which is under the Knot make in form a wedge but let the bark or reind remain upon the edges of it then put it into the Stock joyning the reind of the Graff exactly with the reind of the Stock then put a peece of Clay upon the top of your Stock to defend it from Rain till the wound close and foreget not to cut the top off your Graff i● it be long the length thereof ought not to exceed six inches As to the manner of planting your Fruit-trees observe to plant them at thirty foot distance at least and if the Ground be cold on which they are planted you must digg a hole two or three foot deep and six or eight b●oad where you intend to plant every Tree and if you put not dung in the bottom thereof you must at least fill it with good Earth Some put Coals under their Trees and then plant your Tree when it is filled up so far that your Tree hath little enough deepth to root in then set your Trees upon the fine Earth that you have laid in the bott●m of this pit or holl so must y● do with all your Barren Trees and Hedges where the ground is very cold for when the roots of a Tree is placed upon cold tile or Clay it cannot thrive Wherefore in the planting of your Hedges let the ground be dunged where it is first planted And if the Ground be not naturally good you must gather as much of the Crust of other Ground thereabout as serve to plant your Hedge in So much concerning Planting CHAP. VII Concerning Sowing and Planting of several Garden Seeds and Roots IN this Art I profess not much Knowledge Yet perhaps I have something more than every Husband-Man and all I intend here is only to give some few Directions to such as are altogether ignorant in this matter how to provide themselves in some common Roots and Herbs for the use of their Kitchens Because