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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27339	The countrey-mans rudiments, or, An advice to the farmers in East-Lothian, how to labour and improve their ground	Belhaven, John Hamilton, Baron, 1656-1708.	1699 (1699)	Wing B1786; ESTC R4942	29,366	64

It both makes it sow thick warmeth the Pickle and preserveth it from Fowls and Vermine but whether it preserves it against being blacked I have not yet found out neither I fear shal till it be certainlie known whether that misfortune fall upon the Root or the Ear. I think it also a verie good thing to moisten your Barley before it be sowen especiallie in dry Seasons but not with Salt-water Bryme or Lime for that the Season of the Year will not admit yet I do advise it where they sow Winter Barley Change your Seed often of all Grains but especiallie of Oats but remark that it does best from a worse Ground to a better and from a Colder to a Hotter Let your Seed Corn be likewise well dight and the weakest of the Pickles taken from it for the foulness and dirtiness of Grounds proceeds from the one and the soon degenerating of the Seed from the other As for your houses such as have them already built must keep them as they are but for building of new ones let all sit-houses as they call them stand East and West their Doors and Windows to the South because they are warmest Their Barns must stand North and South from the West end of their Sit-house their Doors East and West because the Wind blow most that way and they are best for winnowing of Corns If your Farm be large I advise three Barns one for Wheat and Barly one for Oats and the third for Pease thereby you will be able to feed your Beasts equally with any sort of Straw that is most proper for them in its Season Their Barn-Yard to the West of their Barns the best place for drying and winning of Corns in Stacks and if it be a Colline rising Ground so much the better Their Stable and Byres from the south-South-end of their Barns East and West their Doors to the North opposite to their sit-house for the Conveniency both of Hearing and attending their Beasts and furnishing them with Straw from their Barns Their Entry from the East because that seldom or never there blows a high Wind from that Airth And therefore your dunghill is least prejudged but be sure to have no Entry but one to your Closs for two Entries blows away all your Straw and the other manure and dryes the Dunghill too much if you build a house for Chaff Strae nait graith and such like things build it on the East-side of your Closs North and South so your Closs will be the warmer and your entry to your sit-house being betwixt the North Gavil of your Chaff-house and the East Gavil of your sit-house may be cleansed and kept clean which the rest of the Closs ought not to be Build all the Walls of your houses with stone and lyme for Stone and Clay is the Destruction of all the Rain moistens the Clay the Stone and Timber slydes the Wall falls the Roof Timber and all breaks and so both men and beasts are in danger of their lives Cover your houses with a few Divots and plenty of Straw which they call Thatch and Divot take notice and mind them yearly by stinging them with Straw alwise where they begin to fail but never add any more Divots and you shall find great profite thereby for the frequent falling of Houses consumes much time to the Tennent besides the Charge and loss of it Therefore I advise you never to put cover upon cover otherwise ye may be certain with the first great Rain and Frost in the Winter Season you will bring down the whole house about your Ears although it be new and reasonably strong built Plant round all your yards with Ash Elm trees with which your Masters will furnish you and in time they will serve to keep up the whole in-stead of Houses I am of opinion the Tennent should have the cutting of them as I have said before in the like case providing that he hain and preserve the old Stocks that they may grow again For your Yard I do not mean your Barn-yards but a piece of Ground set apart for Cabbage and other Roots let it alwise be at the North-side of your Sit-house where you may have a little door to go in at by which it will be preserved from the Summer scorching Sun and Southern Wind the two greatest enemies to Kitching Grounds designed only for ordinar things I think half an Aiker of Land is sufficient for the Quantity unless where the Farm is little the Yard may be the less a good large Grass Yard is also verie usefull upon many occasions For the ordering of your Yard I shall propose nothing but what is both profitable and easie In the first place then plant Cabbage and Summer Kaill which is all that is necessar for Herbage Leeks Sybous and other curious Herbs not being for your handling For Roots I advise you onlie to sow Potatoes and Turnips a larger or less quantitie as you affect most but rather Potatusses because being once planted they will never fail they require little more labour than to keep the Ground where they grow free from Grass The Flandrian Bowers make so much of this Root and had such pletnie thereof that both the Confederate and French Army found great support thereby by feeding the common Soldiers most plentiously it is both delicious and wholesome For Turnipes you must sow them about the middle of June and by Hallowmass you will find them excellent Provision for your Family take them up before the Frost come on and hang them up on the Roof of your Victual house and they will keep well the Winter your Potatis succeed when the Turnips are ending and your Cabbage may be preserved in the same manner till your spring Kail come in The advantage of the Potatis is so excellent and useful that in England and several other places Abroad the poor People boyle them dry them mix them with a little Meal kned them and make them up in Bread which is a most useful and wholesome Food especially in times of Scarcity Of the Joice of them also stilled they make most excellent Aquavitae This is all that is necessar for you to have in your Yards except it be some Turkie Beans and for want of these some good ordinar Beans and Pease which will not only tend for the gooding and improvement of your Yard but are verie good also to boyl with your Pork and keep your Servans also from treading down your Fields of Pease they are also verie useful for your Bees Each Farmer may therefore have one Hive or two of Bees the ordering of them is so well known that I shal not say anie thing but that they will be found very profitable no charge Be careful to gather as much Summer Dung as possible Dung being the Mother of Corn for that end buy Straw wherever you can get it for bedding your Closses Byres and Stables in the Summer time it is ordinarly cheap then and