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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00849	The booke of thrift, containing a perfite order, and right methode to profite lands, and other things belonging to husbandry. ; Newly Englished, and set out by I.B. gentleman of Caen in France.	Henley, Walter de, fl. 1250.; Bellot, Jacques.	1589 (1589)	STC 25007.3; ESTC S124440	21,584	69

of your seede you get nothing except the corne be verie well solde you knowe well that an acre of lād which is sowen with wheat will haue three tillings except those lands the which are sowen euery yéere some more some other lesse Each tilling is woorth sixe pence and the harrowing is worth one penie and it behooueth to sowe vpon euery acre two bushels at the least and these two bushels are at the least woorth at Michaelmasse twelue pence and the wéeding a halfpenie and the cutting downe fiue pence and the carying in haruest one penie and the fodder shall quite the thresshing And the thirde part of the seede ought to yeelde sixe bushels of Wheate And if at Michaelmasse Wheate bee woorth foure shillinges then are sixe bushels woorth three shillinges and your haruest charges doe amount to thrée shillings one penie and halfepenie Chaunge euery yeare the seede at Michaelmasse for the séede which is growen vppon other lande will proue better then the séede which is growen vpon the same land And if you will sée it cause to till two forelandes of one and the same lande and in one day and sowe the one with the féede that you haue bought and the other with the séede which is growen vppon the same land and when you come in haruest time you shall proue that I tell you true Sell not neither stirre not your stubble because that for the lesse you should léese the most When you cause dungue to be kept with good earth cause your dunguehil to be dressed mingled with the dungue and cause euery fortenight to draw out of your shéepecote wherwith to dungue your clayish ground if you haue it or with some good earth drawen out of the ditches and then scatter it vpon and if there remayne any fodder besides the sustainement of your cattell you shall cause it to bee scattered within in the yarde and within the myre and in your shéepecote also cause it to be scattered and in like maner in your modde before the drought of March cause all your dungue to be heaped together which is in the stables in the yarde and without And when you minde to dungue your ground and the same to carie you must haue a man whom you trust well that is faithfull vnto you to follow your cartes the first day and if he séeth that they doe their worke without feyning sée at the iourneyes ende howe much they haue done and let them answere so much euery day except they may shewe some certaine let Your dungue which is mingled with earth you shall put vpon sandie ground if you haue any the cause wherefore I will tell you The Sommer time is hote and the dungue hote and when the third heate is assembled to them by the great heate they doe wither away after midsommer day The barley doth growe in a sandie ground as you may well sée where you goe in many places On the Euening the land which is mingled with dungue causeth the sand to waxe colde and rayseth vp deawe and therefore that your landes that are sowen may bring foorth the more dungue them and till them not too déepe because that the dungue is marred in turning in too déepe How I will tell you what aduantage you shall haue by the strawe which is mingled with the earth If the dungue be but it selfe it may last thrée yeares or there aboutes according as the land is either cold or hote The dungue which is mingled with earth doth last the double but it shall not be so quicke you know well that the marle lasteth more then straw why so Because that the dungue wasteth in turning it déepe into the earth and the marle in turning of it out of the earth And why doeth the dungue mingled with earth last longer then the pure dungue I will tell it to you The dungue and the earth which are tilled together susteyneth the strawe that it wasteth not in the turning in though it should waste naturally Therefore I pray you to cause dungue to be kept according to the abilitie And your dungue which is scattered and somwhat moistned is in season good to be turned for the ground and the dungue shall then take the better together And if you put your dungue vpon fallowes it shall bée all at the stirring turned vnder the ground in sowing time shall come vp againe with the mingled ground and if it be put vpō stirring in sowing time it shal be turned the more vpō the earth and the lesse mingled with the ground and that is not approoued and the nearer the dungue is to the séed it is better at the feast of our Ladie first cause to fatten your dungue according as you haue of shéepe either more or lesse for they do in that season cast much fatning Make once in the yeare your prouision draw btwéene Easter and Whitsunday to wit your oxen and kine and other cattel which are not to be kept let them be put to fatten to grasse and you shall gaine and knowe the certaintie that then the woorst is better woorth then the best How I will tell it you If they be cattell for burden they must be kept better then the other and more made of else the other are the more grieued by their default and if you must buie any store buie it betwéene Easter and Whirsuntide for then are cattell leane and good cheape And before your horses be too olde or tyred or leane or of small valour you may sell them away in due season and then may you relieue your selfe with good and young How store should be kept it is good you should know it to make your seruānts wise for when they shal sée that you know it they shall indeuor to be the better The cattell for the plough must haue pasture sufficient to doe their worke and that they be not laboured too much vnder when they shall come to the manger for you should bestowe too much cost to restore them and so your gaines should be diminished put them in no houses in rainie weather for surfetting may come betwixt the haire and the skin which turneth to the great damage of your cattell and if your cattell haue their ordinarie prouender let it be giuē to thē by day light at the sight of the hayward or of the prouost mingle it with a little strawe of wheate or of oates and not of barley straw because barley strawe hath too many beards which will offend the mouthes of the horses And why doe you say so by proofe of the straw I will tell it you because it happeneth often that théeues doe steale their prouender and the horses doe eate strawe better then the prouender and doe fatten and doe become better And let not much fodder be giuen to the oxen at once but litle at once and often and then they eate it well and waste little of it and when there is greater quantitie before them they doe

shift their féete The plough of oxen is farre better then the plough of horses The cause why I will tell it you The horse doth cost more then the oxe besides that the plough of oxen is so much woorth by the yeare as the plough of horses because that the naughtinesse of plough-men suffereth not the horses to goe more then their pace Besides the same for the stayings the plough of horses shall staie when the plough of oxen shall goe on And wil you sée how much the horse costeth more then the oxe the same I will tell you It is alwayes accustomed that those beastes which doe serue about the plough doe lie in at the manger betwixt Saint Lukes feast holy crosse-feast in May during twentie fiue wéekes and yet the horse must be well kept to doe his daies iourney he must haue oates by night the sixt parte of a bushell of oates estéemed at a halfepenie hee must haue at the laest twelue sheaues of grasse in Summer time euery wéeke some horses more and some lesse of one penie the burthen Concerning the shoowing if they be shoowed of al foure féete the summe riseth to twelue shillings fiue pence halpenie hy the yere besides the fodder and the strawe and if the oxe be in good liking to do his work then it is needfull to allowe him at the least thrée sheaues and a halfe of oates by the weeke rated at one penie and in Summer season twelue burdens of grasse rated at two shillinges and one penie besides fodder and straw and ten sheaues of oates doe answere a bushell of oates heape measure And when the horse is olde and tired then is there in him nothing good but the skinne And when the oxe is olde with twelue burdens of grasse he will be woorth being fatted or being solde so much as he did cost you first or more In breaking time is a good season for the plowmā if the ground breaketh after the plough and the fallowing after Midsommer day it is best for him whē the dust doth rise after the plough and in the earing sowing time when the land is setled and is not too close but he that hath much to doe can not haue all the good seasons And when you do breake déepe any good land then must you square furrow for to haue good resting land but pricke it not to déepe but sparingly onely doing so that ye may destroy the thistles the wéeds for if the land be fallowed to déepe and if it be wette and waterish when it is eared and sowen the plough can not then reach any certaine ground but it shall goe flowing as in a good ground and if the plough might goe two finger deeper then the lande was fallowed then shoulde the plough finde the certaine grounde and shoulde bee cleansed and should make faire and good plowing In sowing time doe not plough large surrow but a little one and well ioyned together that the seede maie well fall And if you doe plough large furrowes for to make great dispatch you shall doe hurt as I will tell you When the land is sowen the harrow will come that shall rake all the séede on the hill which is betwene the surrowes and the furrow which is large shall be discouered and there shall grow no corne and to shew you that it is so when the corne is vpon the ground go to the head of the land and looke on the corne towardes the other head and you shall sée that the same which I tell you is true If the ground be to be sowen vpon the furrow sée that it be tilled with litle furrows and the ground so high as you may possible and sée that the furrow which is betwixt the two furrowes be straight and the land which lieth as it were a combe in that furrow vnder the left foote after the plough that it may be all turned and then the furrow shall be streight inough Sow your lands betimes so that the earth be setled and the corne wel rooted before the comming of the hard winter If perchance it happeneth that any great raine falles vpon the land within the eight dayes that it is sowen and then a harde frost commes two or three dayes after if the lande be hollowe the frost shall pearce the earth so déepe as the water is gone in and therfore the corne which is sprowted shal be incontinet rotten Two perilles that are in sowing in Lent season sowinges so betimes The earth that is clayish and the stony grounde I will tell you wherefore if it bee a drie season in March then the clayish earth shall waxe too harde and the stonie grounde shall waxe dryer when it is couered wherefore it needeth that such landes be sowen in a conuenient time so that the corne may be well nourished by the moystnesse of the winter The hollow lands néed not to be sowen otherwayes but in their time for these two are two sorts of ground which fall to be hollow and great in shewe but in the sowing of them let the landes bee somewhat wet And when your lands be sowen cause to scowre well the marish and other waterish grounds and cause the ditches about them to be well clensed that thereby your land may be the sootter dried from the water Cause to clense and wéede your corne after Midsommer day for it is not good to do it afore And if you do cut of the thistles a forte-night or a seuen-night before Midsommer day of eache shall come two or thrée cause your corne to be wisely reaped and put in the barne To make the profite of your barne sée that you entertaine a faithfull honest man that may faithfully charge the prouost for it is séene often that the Barner and the granetier doe ioyne together to doe ill let your prouost and your granetiers cause the same corne to be truly caried but measure of eight bushels one pecke for the waste and decay at the comming in and at the going out of the barne for their is deceite in the heaping as I will tell you When the prouost hath rendered account of the profit of the barne then cause the bushell to be proued wherewithall it was charged and you shall finde that foure heaped quarters shall make the fift a little more or a little lesse and if the bushell be narrower of fiue quarters this take and if it bee narrower of sixe quarters then take the seuenth and if it be yet narrower of the seuen quarters then take the eight and yet being narrower of eight quarters take the ninth and of each of them a litile either a little more or a little lesse according to their bignesse Now some of these proffes of measure will render a true account but with the ninth quarter what bushel soeuer it be either broade or narrow will do it And if the bushell be broade there is a great deceite if the profite of your barne answereth but to the thirde