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A06946	Markhams farwell to husbandry or, The inriching of all sorts of barren and sterill grounds in our kingdome, to be as fruitfull in all manner of graine, pulse, and grasse as the best grounds whatsoeuer together with the anoyances, and preseruation of all graine and seede, from one yeare to many yeares. As also a husbandly computation of men and cattels dayly labours, their expences, charges, and vttermost profits. Attained by trauell and experience, being a worke neuer before handled by any author: and published for the good of the whole kingdome.; Farewell to husbandry	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1620 (1620)	STC 17372; ESTC S112107	100,169	168

Markhams farwell to HVSBANDRY OR The inriching of all sorts of Barren and Sterrill Grounds in our Kingdome to be as fruitfull in all manner of Graine Pulse and Grasse as the best Grounds whatsoeuer Together with the anoyances and preseruation of all Graine and Seede from one yeare to many yeares As also a Husbandly Computation of Men and Cattels dayly Labours their Expences Charges and vttermost Profits Attained by Trauell and Experience being a Worke neuer before handled by any Author AND Published for the good of the whole Kingdome LONDON Printed by I. B. for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his Shop neere Fleete-Streete Conduit 1620. TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull and his most worthy friend Mr. BONHAM NORTON Esquire Worthy Sir KNowledge which is the diuine mother of certaine Goodnesse neuer came vnwelcome to a knowing Iudgement no more I hope Shall this my Labour to your worthy Selfe since doubtlesse you shall finde in it many things New somethings necessary and nothing which ●…th not in it some particular touch of profit It is a worke your former incouragements to my other labours did create in me and the wants you worthily found I hope shall bring you supplies both wholesome and becomming The experience I assuer your Goodnesse was the expence of a bitter and tedious Winter but the contentme●… in gaining my wish made it more pleasant then all the three other Seasons What euer it be it comes to you full of loue full of seruice And since I know Vertue measureth all things by its owne goodnesse it is enoughto me that I know you are that Vertue In you is power to iudge in you is Authoritie to exercise Mercy lth them both flye from your Goodnesse with that mildnesse that in them my hopes may be Crowned and my Selfe rest euer at your ser●…ice GERVASE MARKHAM To the Reader DId not the beginning of the worke it selfe sufficiently pleade an excuse for euery part of the Worke I should Gentle Reeder trouble thee with a tedious tale of the manner matter and cause of this Building and therein begge that cha●…itable Almes which the honestie of thine owne Nature will giue me without any troublesome acclamation Let it suffice I haue written no more then I haue seene nor added a benefit which I haue not knowne liberally bestowed vpon the industrious of which if you will be a pertaker follow their Imitation and to good labours adde a good life and there is no feare of a Blessing if any man be costiue or hard of beliefe I know not how to purge him except it be with the bitter ayres of those barren places where these Sterrill Grounds are on which if he liue and haue no foode but his owne labour doubtlesse he will not only belee●…e but loue and admire what is written for a generall profit and to that I leaue those The rest that are of more equall indifferencie to the Blessings and Increase which shall come by worthy knowledge and experience Farewell G. M. The Table and generall Contents of the whole Booke CHAP. I. THe nature of Grounds in generall Page 1 The Authors preamble ibid The profit of the Worke 4 A satisfaction for the truth of the Work 6 The nature of barren Grounds ibid CHAP. II. The Ordering Tilling and Dressing of all barren Clayes simple or compound 9 The first Inriching of barren Grounds ibid The manner of Plowing 10 The hacking of grounds ibid The Sanding of grounds 11 The Lyming of grounds 12 The Meanuring of grounds ibid The times for all labours 13 The second plowing 14 The second hacking ibid The first Harrowing ibid Of Sowing the Seede ibid The second Harrowing 15 Falts in the Earth ibid The Clotting of grounds 16 Another manner of Clotting 17 An Obiection and Answere 20 The ordering of Earthes where Sand wanteth 21 Sowing of Salt ibid The excellency of Salt ibid Of Steeping Seede in Brine 22 CHAP. III. Of the ordering tillying and dressing of all rough barren clay as simple or compound being ouer-runne with Gorse Brome c. 24 The destroying of Weedes 26 Burning of Baite ibid The breaking of the burnt Earth 27 The causes of vnfruitfulnesse ibid An excellent Meanure ibid The Plowing 28 Of diuers Meanures ibid Mixture of Meanures ibid Of Weeding 29 The time for Weeding 30 The gathering of Stones 31 CHAP. IIII. Of the Ordering Tylling ●…nd Dressing of barren Clayes that are ouer-runne with Whinnes 32 What Whinnes are ibid Paring of grounds 33 Making of Baites ibid Breaking of Baites 34 Plowing 35 Harrowing Weeding and the profits 37 CHAP. V. Of Ordering Tylling and Dressing all barren Clayes which are ouer-runne with Ling and Heath 38 Destroying of Heath 39 Another burning of Baite 40 Of Weeding 42 CHAP. VI. Of the Ordering Trimming and Dressing of all barren Sands bearing no thing but mo●…ie Grasse 44 Of Plowing 46 Of Marling 47.53 What Marle is ibid Of ●…kalke and the vse 49 The Profit 51 CHAP. VII Of the Plowing Tilling and Dressing of all barren Sands that are ouerrun with Braken Ferne or Heath 52 Of Sanding and Liming 54 Of Plowing and Sowing ibid Labours after Sowing 55 Of Weeding 56 CHAP. VIII The Flowing Tisting and Ordering of all barren Sands laden with Twitch and wilde Bryar 57 The destroying of Twitch and Bryar ib Of Meanures 58 Of Harrowing and other labours 59 Of Weeding 60 CHAP. IX The Plowing Tilling and Ordering of Sands laden with morish stinking grasse 61 Grounds for Fish-ponds 62 The Draining of Wet grounds 64 The Harrowing 67 The Weeding 66 CHAP. X. How to inrich and make the most barre soyle to beare excellent good Pasture or Meadow 69 Two waies to inrich Earthes ibid Of watering Grounds 71 The belpes in watering 72 When and how to Water ibid The best season for Watering 73 CHAP. XI The i●…iching barren Grounds for Hemp or Flaxe 75 Black Clay for Hemp 76 The Weeding 78 The making ill Earth beare Hemp ib The Weeding 79 CHAP. XII The manner of Stacking all kinde of Graine with least losse 80 CHAP. XIII The diseases and impersections which happen to all manner of Graine 84 Crowes or Birds and the cuer 85 Pigeons and the cuer 87 To saue Corne ready to reape 88 Of Dors and the cuer 90 Of Pismiers and the cuer 91 Of field Rats and Mice ibid Of wormes and the cuer 92 Of Rye not to be wet ibid Of snailes ibid Of Grashoppers 94 Of Moales and the cuer 95 Offences from the influences of Heauen 96 Of Smuttinesse or Mildew and the cuer 97 Of Hale and the cuer ibid Of Lightning and the cuer ibid Of Frosts 99 Of Mysts and Fogges and the cuer 100 Of Blastings and the cuer ibid Corne reapt wet and the cuer 102 Of Washt Corne 104 To know washt corne 105 CHAP. XIIII How to keepe all manner of Graine thrasht or unthrasht the longest time and how to preserue it c. 106 The needfull vse of preseruing corne ib The keeping corne in the

these particular profits following First plenty of Corne and Pulse because all grounds being made able and apt for Tillage the Kingdome may afford to sowe for one Bushell that is now hereafter fiue hundred so mightie great are the vnfruitfull and vntilled wastes of Heathes Downes Mores and such like which at this day lye vntilled and vnoccupied and to this abundance of Corne will redound an equall or greater abundance of Grasse and Pasture for besides that those men and Masters of many grounds may conuert all their best and most fruitfull Earth to Pasture and Medow and only keepe the Barren for tillage yet also this barren earth after it hath done bearing of Corne which will be in fiue or sixe yeares shall for as many yeares more beare as good Medow or Pasture either for breeding or feeding as can any way be reasonably required and then being newly made againe shall newly begin and flourish in his first Profit as shall be at large shewed and set forth hereafter as I haue seene with mine owne eies to my no small pleasure and amazement not in one butin diuers and sundry most vntruitfull and hard Countries Secondly whereas through the most parts of this Kingdome there is euery yeare a third or fourth part of all Corne grounds lost in the fallow or tylthe fields one field of three or one of foure continually lying at rest now by the vse of the Husbandry following you shall neuer keepe any fallow field at all but haue all your ground to beare you continually either Corne or Grasse in good aboundance Lastly whereas in all the generall best parts of this Nation you cannot haue any Graine of price as Wheat Barley Rye and such like vnder two three foure fiue and some sixe times plowing now you shall not plow aboue twice at the most for the tenderest and richest graine that is to be reaped whereby there shall be much paines eased in the Husbandman great trauell saued from the Cattell and a much larger limitation of time giuen for other nece●…ary houshold and forraine businesses Now some may heere aske me what true and vpright right testimonie I can giue of this my assertion or what inducements to draw men to a beliefe of my relation though I could referre such disputers to practise and the experience which shall arise from such practise yet to giue them better satisfaction if they please to ride or walke into the North parts of Deuonshire into the Barren or Mountainous parts of South Wales or North Wales or into that wildernesse of Bogges and Barrennesse I meane that colde vast Country of Exmore where is nothing but vnseasonablenesse and they shall euen there finde where the ground is industriously made and refined as good plenty of Corne and Grasse as in the fruitfullest vales in our In-land and warmer Countries Truly for mine owne part I dare boldly auow that which mine eies haue beheld for I haue seene on oneside of the hedge nothing but mosse for grasse furres go●…sse whynnes and all other tokens of Sterrill barrainnesse and on the other side as good Corne and Grasse and in as great plenty as in any fruitfull Country whatsoeuer and all this brought forth but with a little cost and some labour To proceede then to the full effect of my purpose without more preambulation or satisfaction to the curious for to the honestly vertuous are all mine indeuours directed you shall vnderstand that it is meete that euety Husbandman be skilfull in that true knowledge of the natures of Grounds as which is fruitfull which not of which in my first Bookes I haue written sufficiently nor doe I in this Booke intend to write any tittle that is in them contained for as I loue not Totologie so I deadly hate to wrong my friend Grounds then as I haue formerly written in my first Bookes being simple or compounded as simple Clayes or simple Sands or compounded of Clayes Sands or Grauels together may be all good and all fit to bring forth increase or all euill and barren and vnfit for profit for euery Earth whether it be simple or compounded whether of it selfe or of double mixture doth participate wholly with the Clime wherein it lyeth and as that is more hot or more cold more moist or more drye so is the Earth euer more or lesse fruitfull yet for the better vnderstanding of the plaine Country-man you shall know that both the fruitfull and vnfruitfull Ground hauetheir seuerall faces and charracters whereby they be as well knowne as by the Clime or situation of the Continent for that ground which though it beare not any extraordinary abundance of grasse yet will loade it selfe with strong and lusty weedes as Hemblocke Docks Mallowes Nettles Ketlocks and such like is vndoubtedly a most rich and fruitfull ground for any graine whatsoeuer also that ground which beareth Reede Rushes Clouer Daysie and such like is e●…er fruitfull in Grasse and Herbadge so that smal cost and lesse labour in such grounds will euer make good the profit of the Husbandman But with these rich grounds at this time I haue nothing to doe To come downe then to the barren vnwholesome Grounds you shall vnderstand that they are to be known three seuerall waies first by the Clyme and Continent wherein they lye next by their constitution and condition and lastly by outward faces and charracters By the Clyme and Continent as when the ground lies farre remote from the Sunne or when it lyes Mountainous and high stony and rocky or so neere vnto the skirts and borders of the Sea that the continuall Fogges Stormes Myfts and ill vapours arising from thence doe poyson and starue the Earth all which are most apparent ●…ignes of Barrennesse By the Constitution and Condition as when the ground is either too extreamely cold and moist or else to violently hot and dry either of which produceth much hardnesse to bring forth and sheweth the Earth so lying to be good for little or no profit By the outward Faces and Charracters as when you see insted of Grasse which should be greene flowrie and thicke growing a pale thinne mossie substance couer the Earth as most commonly is vpon all high Planes Heathes Downes and such like or when you see the ground couered with Heath Lynge Broome Braken Gorsse or such like they be most apparent signes of infinite great Barrennesse as may be seene in many Mores Forrests and other wilde and wooddy places And of these vnfertill places you shall vnderstand that it is the Clay ground which for the most part brings forth the Mosse the Broome the Gorsse and such like the Sand which bringeth forth Brakes Lynge Heath and the mix●… Earth which vtters Whynnes Bryars and a world of such like vnnaturall and bastardly issues Thus hauing a true knowledge of the Nature and Condition of your ground you shall then proceede to the ordering eareing and dressing of the same whereby it may not only be