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A45229 The husbandman's jewel directing how to improve land from 10 l. per annum to 50 l. with small charge by planting ... Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. 1695 (1695) Wing H3806; ESTC T36873 39,874 54

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you may warm it to that degree of Heat you usually do Ale or Beer which rather betters it than the Contrary Take a spoonful of ground Oatemeal and temper it with Water as you do to put into broth then add a Quart of clear Water to it Brew it 6 or 7 times out of one Cup or Pot into another and it s done An universal Medicine for all Wounds or diseases GOD is often pleased to manifest his great Power in things that seem very little in our esteem as appears by this Medicine of chew'd white Bread I was struck by a new shoed Horse on the Shin-bone my Leg swelled that my Bone was forced to be cut I lay'd some chew'd white Bread to my Leg when I went to Bed and next Day the Pain was gone My Hand was bit through by a mad Dog I lay'd this to it and Cured it in four Days I have Cured divers Green Wounds with it I Applyed it but six times and Mollifyed a Corn so that I took it out Core and Root and it grew no more I Cured my self of an old Pain in my Shoulder by it a great swelling in my Throat Occasioned by a violent Cold it broak out like the Kings Evel I Cured it in four Days a swelled Leg Putrifyed and great Holes in it and all over full of Tulch and Rottenness that it was conceived to be a Gangren I Cured with it a Pruning Hook stuck through my Thumb-nail and all I Cured with it also one run into the Knee with a Rusty Raper so Festred that it was thought it must have been out off I Cured one Black and Blew from Elbow to Shoulder by a blow and many other I Cured the quality of it is to stench Blood draw out Poison or a Thorn to ease Pains and heal greeved places Read more of this and abundance of Curiosities in a Book called the way to get Wealth by making 23 sorts of English Wine equal to French Metheglin Rum Rack Coffee Tea Mum Cyder and 40 sorts of Ale in a Minute to make Corn produce a treble Crop to dress Fish Flesh and Fowl Accounts cast up of great use to Traders to Write Letters Accounts where Coach Carts and Waggons Inns to Compound bad Debts and recover them and abundance of other Curiosities Also another Book Intituled the way to save Wealth by living well for 2d a Day to save Coals Shoes Candles Soap and Cloth in making a shift to Angle order Bees and Silk-worms Cattle Powltry c. to Improve Land by Hops Flax Liquorice to destroy Virmin to speake by Signs and 20 in the Room shall know nothing of it aod by this means cheating at Cards is plainly Demonstrated to feed Horses fatt without Corn Hay or Grass with many other Curiosities Also another Book Intituled a Thousand Notable things teaching speedily to Read Write and Indite Letters to speake any Language speedily the Laws of the City Observations in Planting Gardening and Grafting to catch Birds to Build and save Lime a cheap way to take spots out of Cloths the use of Dullidge-water to know what Weather will happen Rules of Health and how to live long of Moles Riddles Dreams Stories to make all sorts of Ink to make fine Pictures of Perfuming Dying Colouring with 900 other Curiosities price of each Book 1 s. 6d Sold at the Ring in Little Brittain To cure the Farce or Scurf in a Horse HAng a Toad about the Neck of a Horle in a little Bag and it will Infalibly cure him it must be a live Toad and this I am told cured a Child of the Evil hung about its Neck in a Bag a live and hang there till it dyes and Stink The Angler's Instructor TO be a Compleat Angler observe these things following 1. His Cloaths ought to be of a dark Colour 2. Let your Angling Rod be light and taper and the top prety stiff and about 4 yards long 3. The best time to provide Fishing Rods is from the 11th of December to the middle of January being then freest from Sap Hasle Black Thorn Crab-Tree and Yewswitches are mostly used Let your Stocks and Tops be taper and smooth and each joint neatly suited bind them together 16 Months with straight poles among them that they may not wrap If you use a Firr Angle rub it with Aqua fortis and it gives a curious Chesnut Colour Proportion your Rods and Lines according as the Rivers Ponds c. are in largeness your Lines also must be in strength proportionable to the Fish you expect to catch For the colour of the Hair if there be any difference I prefer a pale water Green which you may dye thus Take a Bottle of Allom-water a good handful of Marygolds boil them till a yellow Scum arises then put half a pound of green Copperas and half a pound of Verdigrease and beat them to powder put these into the Allom-water then put in the Hair set them to cool 12 Hours then take out the Hair and let it dry Let your Line for the Artificial Fly be stronger than the Ground Line for the Trout 5. Your Shot ought to be fastned about a foot from the Hook Your Float if a Quill make thus Take two soft Goose Quills cut the Heads of each about an Inch and a half then shut them together like a Pin case fastenwith melted Shoomakers Wax put a Pill of the same Wax within the end to keep out Water with 2 Caps or Rings made of Quill to slip on each end of the Float for the Line to go between some use a Cork cut like a Pear and bored thro' with a small hot Iron then put in a Quill of a fit Proportion then on a Grindstone rub it smooth 6 In the next Place be provided with a Plummet to try the Depth of the Water 7. Have Bags of Linnen and Woolen for all sorts of Baits and a little Wherstone to sharpen your Hook and also be provided with a Landing Net and a Pen-knife c. All your Tackling in Order go to the River and find a Place if you can that hath a gravelly or smooth Bottom and about 2 or 3 yards in depth the Stream not too swift then about a yard from the place you design to Fish at cast in a quarter of a Peck of Grains or as many more if you please dip them first in the River that they may sink the better and about an Hour after you may begin to Fish for by that time its probable the Fish may have found them If you have not Sport in an Hour you may conclude there is none or else that Pearch and Pike are there that live on small Fish 8. Then plumb the Ground and Fish about 2 Inches from the Bottom the best Summer Bait except in April and May their Spawning time when they are not gone should be large Wheat ordered as Furmety which may be kept 15 or 20 days in Water or Beer putting in fresh as the Skins
even with the surface in their Tracts and they 'll fall into it If the ground is troubled with Gaurse Tansie Fern Thistle c pull them up Hoe or strike of the Tops that the Root that remains being over Charged with Sap may Perish And to raise immediately a good Soard and prevent Weeds growing you must Dung your Grounds and spreading the Dung suffer the Rain to soak in levelling the Land with a Rowler and suffer not heavy Cattle if it lye Low to Graze when the Rain has made it soft for by treading they will spoil it's growing when soft and if you intend it for Hay then no Cattle must come in it after lady-Lady-Day least by Croping too near the young blades of Grass they spoile the first cutt and hinder the latter also Read more of these things in Blith's Husbandry a Book wrote by Experience and the only Book of Husbandry Extant the Fourth Edition with large Aditions Sold at the Ring in Little Brittain Price 3 s To improve Ground by Hops Flax Liquorice and Saffron FOr a Hop Garden choose a good mellow Ground and rich Ground not two hot moist nor Cold well sheltred by Trees from strong Winds that may rend the Vines from the Poles turn it up deep with a Plough or dig it with a Spade and cast it up into little hills or Rows with Alleys betwixt the Hills about two foot distant from each other then take your best Sprouts or for want of them the Growth of slips and making four or five holes in a Hill crumble in some Mold lightly and put the slips or Sprouts into the holes and so cover them up do this in the beginning of April observing if time will permit the Moon to be in the Increase and to every Sprout that rises well fix a Pole and suffer that to twist about it Observe to set them all Inclinning towards the South that the Sun may the better compass them for this is most evident a bending Pole has more Hops than an upright And a Gentlemen in York shire places his Hops in such sort that one Plant may not shadow another but that his whole Garden receives the fulness and strength of the Sun Beams at once whereby his Hops are more kindly and the Bells much larger than any other Hop Ground whose Poles are erected and stand upright after our ordinary and gross manner To return I say fix the Pole for them to twist about it the Pole being 8 or 9 Foot above Ground at least being full of Snags for the better supporting the Vine At Lamas Tide you will find them Belled and when you find them fit to cut cut the Vines by the Root and take them off with the Poles into a plain place and gather them dry them on a Kiln and Bag them up an Acre of Hops are sometimes worth 100 Pound To Improve Land by Flax. PLough up a considerable mellow Ground and having a good sort of Seed sow it in the middle of April if possible in the Moons increase having before improved the Land with fat Soil from the streets or some Olse place casting the Seed 2 Bushel to an Acre and when it appears above Ground whilst young take care that the Weeds over grow it not tho when it has out slipt them it needs no Weeding for the Land being some what moist it will grow to an Extraordinary height when ripe which is known by the Yellowness of the outward Rind and the swelling of the Seeds then must you pluck up the Stalks and bind them up in little bundles suffering them to dry in the Sun then lay the bundles in Water soaking them with heavy weigth and when you find the Rind loose then are they steeped enough then take them out and unloose them again drying them in the Sun and strip off the Rind which you must hackle on Crins of Iron c. Fit for use an Acre well managed will bear 30 or 40 Pounds worth of Flax when dressed and ordered to the purpose Hemp Seed steeped in plain Salt-peter diluted in Water and other fit Earthy substance in its due time arrived to the Talness that it rather seem'd a Coppice of Wood of 14 Years growth than plain Hemp. Of Planting and Grafting IN Planting observe when you remove any Tree to mark it in the Rind that you set it the same way it grew first bring with you as much of the natural Earth as you can and over and above adding a small matter of Dung and fresh Mold cuting off part of the top Branches that they may not draw away too much Sap before its well Rooted In Grafting there are several methods to be observed and first when you have taken the Scion which must be from the body of the Tree and not a top Twig You must saw off your Stock about 3 or 4 Foot above the Ground then cuting the Twig flat at the great end but not the Bark off slit the Stock with a Knife or Chisell and put in the Scion that both barks may toutch then with Dung and Clay well tempred together bind it up close that neither Air nor Bugs can enter and let it continue Secondly there are some who bore a hole a sloap into the heart of the Tree and so put the Scion in Thirdly they take a Bud from one Tree and slitting the Bark of another Tree let it in and so close them together Fourthly there are those that slice off a Bud or Scion with the intire Bark and plaister and by opening the Bark of a Branch into another Tree and all these ways sometimes hit In Grafting the Fig will grow on a Mulbery the Apple or Pear on a Quince or Crab the Damson on a Wild Thorn Peach and Cherry upon a Peach the Apricock on a Plumb the Wal-nut upon the Ash the Quince on the Barbary the Almond on the Philbeart the Vine upon the Cherry Tree and so of other which are better and improved by Grafting To improve Liquorice LIquorice greatly improves Ground and is of a lasting quality to order it dig your Ground very deep then mellow the Mold and cast it up into Banks making Alleys between the Banks being about two Foot high then take your Crown-slips and make Holes with a setting Staff upon the Banks in a line put in the slips having first crumbled in some soft Mold covering all but the Top and as the Leaves sprout draw the Earth about them with a small Hoe and Water not the Plants except the Weather be excessive dry and then but very little and that in the Evening and because you can expect but little Benefit of these Plants the First and Second Year you may Sow Onions set Potato's Beans Cabbage or any thing of the like nature between them and the 3d Year about the beginning you may draw and dig the Plants and dry them in a Hot-house Killn or Stow and a good Acre of Liquorice will yeild 90 Pound To improve Saffron