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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93639	Adam out of Eden or, an abstract of divers excellent experiments touching the advancement of husbandry. Shewing, among very many other things, an aprovement of ground by rabbiss [sic],from 200 l. annual rent, to 2000 l. yearly profit, all charges deducted. / By Ad. Speed. Gent.	Speed, Adolphus, fl. 1652-1659.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4877; Thomason E2135_1; ESTC R203589	41,178	190

ADAM OUT OF EDEN OR An abstract of divers excellent Experiments touching the advancement of Husbandry SHEWING Among very many other things an Aprovement of Ground by Rabbiss from 200 l. annual Rent to 2000 l. yearly profit all charges deducted By Ad. Speed Gent. LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane 1659. A Digression to the usage of divers Countries concerning the Tillage EAch soyl hath no liking of every Grain Nor Barly nor Wheat is for every vain Yet know I no Country so barren of soyl But some kind of coin may be gotten with toyl Though Husband at home be to count the was what Yet Huswife within is as needfull as that What helpeth in store to have never so much Half lost by ill usage ill Huswifes and such To the Reader HOw excellent and how innocent the art of Husbandry is has been sufficiently made out by the best of Authors God himself who chose out that employment for the best of the Creatures Man whom he placed in Eden not only to enjoy but to labour without both which no place can be a Paradise Perpetual enjoyments without bodily exercise breeding nothing but loathing and diseases For which cause the actions of body or mind are called Recreations as carrying on the grand design of God himself Nor can there be found in Nature a more ingenuous necessary delightfull or honourable employment than Agriculture a Calling born with us and bred in us affording matter for the most refined Wits without which Mankind cannot be preserved by which we are both sustained and delighted An Art wherein renowned Scholars have employed their parts and Princes without dishonour their time and pains Yet such is the pride and folly of our Nation that most aspire to collateral Vocations which owe their life and sustenance to the Husband-man and consist only in over-reaching each other And scarce any are left to study the Georgicks but such as can do nothing else For which cause our Ancestors have left the rules and observations by which our skill herein should be improved only by tradition except Virgil and some others who have eternized their names by transmitting to posterity their knowledge herein For the promotion of which great and needfull work our ingenuous Author hath exposed his Observations and Experiences to the publick view which have long been smothered in private hands till by the good nature of a Publick-spirited Gentleman to whose industry in several other things our Age is obliged they have blest our eyes Embrace this opportunity and reduce these Precepts to practice England affords Land enough for the Inhabitants and if men did but industriously and skilfully improve and manure it we need not go to Jamaica for new plantations Farewell Chap. 1. Of Improvement of ground by Rabbits IT is in Husbandry as in other practical Professions Art Industry and Experience adde every day new supplies to the better either by contracting the charge and then the improvement is in the Method or by multiplying the advantage and then it is in the increase How many rare secrets are there now discovered whereby the Publick is enriched whereof our Fore-fathers never dreamed and some doubtless are as yet concealed from us being left to posterity and the next age to find out Because amongst many others relating to Husbandry some are of more excellent use I have here made a select choyce of them reporting nothing but what observation and experience to which my Genius hath been long addicted have found certainly true And first I shall begin with the improvement of ground by Rabbits There is to be taken five hundred acres of ground within fifteen miles of London for eight shillings the acre which being stored with twenty Rabbits per acre highly bred sixteen of them being Breeders cacording to direction will in all probability afford either of them twelve Rabbits at three litters I have known those so bred that one Rabbit hath brought at one litter sometimes ten and commonly eleven and hath brought them up very well and fat and at a Lords ground I have known the like increase besides those of my own whereof I have had sufficient experience admit sixteen Rabbits bring either of them but ten at three litters they come to one hundred and sixty Rabbits for the which after six weeks of age I know a Poulterer that giveth eight pence the Rabbit and constantly untill Michaelmas and some Poulterers more after Michaelmas which may be sold so then between one shilling and one shilling eight pence the Rabbit admit them but at eight pence the Rabbit all the year one hundred and sixty Rabbits come to five pound six shillings and eight pence the acre and I am confident that in grounds not proper for them they brought the last unseasonable years before this four five and seven at three litters I have been sufficiently resolved in this design by the most of the Warreners throughout England though I needed not their judgement In five hundred acres at five pound six shillings eight pence per acre to be considered the herbage for sheep and other cattel at least one hundred pound per annum besides the keeping of Poultery Pheasants Partridge and other fowl with Pigeons Bees c. and places for divers other plantations at twenty thirty forty fifty pound an acre profit per annum and upward with fish-ponds accordingly stored besides there is an other profit in this design very considerable and of no small consequence with house-keeping compleat for all occasions and great conveniency for a Dairy and very conveniently near London Sum total two thousand seven hundred sixty and six pound rent for the ground two hundred pound salaries sixty five pound food for the Rabbits in Hutches one hundred pound admit though more than needs by far being there are now better preventions than formerly one thousand Rabbits at eight pence the Rabbit three hundred thirty three pounds total six hundred ninety eight pounds de claro two thousand sixty five pounds If the number of the Rabbits be thought too high and the casualties too low that followeth to make up all and to obstruct all objections the first litter will breed the same year being rightly bred and disposed of allow three of the last litters from every one of the first breeders the Buck being first destroyed bring ten Rabbits which come to one hundred and sixty Rabbits per acre and amount unto five pounds six shillings eight pence per acre total six hundred sixty and six pounds as before There are two Gentlemen now in London of great ability and repute that will justifie these proportions and that they made out of two several five acres of ground either of them at least ten pounds an acre per annum That there is to be taken fifteen hundred acres for one shilling per acre that will after the like proportion according to the number of acres bring many thousand pounds more That two thousand acres may be