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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45751	A discoverie for division or setting out of land, as to the best form published by Samuel Hartlib esquire, for direction and more advantage and profit of the adventurers and planters in the fens and other waste and undisposed places in England and Ireland ; whereunto are added some other choice secrets of experiments of husbandry ; with a philosophical quere concerning the cause of fruitfulness, and an essay to shew how all lands may be improved in a new way to become the ground of the increase of trading and revenue to this common-wealth.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Dymock, Cressy. Discovery for new divisions, or, setting out of lands.	1653 (1653)	Wing H985; ESTC R9861	21,776	42

to destroy all their labours and charges in an instant therefore say they not very wisely nor industriously though it is better sit stil then rise up and fall Whereas if English men would be resolutely and ingeniously industrious by this or some other or better Contrivance Way or Means which I shall gladly subscribe to when I see it those dangers may be avoided and this Nation become in an age or two as much almost beyond what it now is as it now is beyond Scotland for fertility or Ireland for good Husbandry And we need hardly be beholden to any Nation under heaven for any of their Commodities except Spanish-Wines and Spices or some such things of which we have no simple necessity I have observed that in most parts of England especially in Champion Countreys the Pastures lie neer home and the Woods Meads and Corn-land lie at a great distance And something like it in inclosed grounds also and that it is common to go through one Close into another whereas it is plain that the corne or grasse in the first Close is liable to be eaten and troden down by the Cattle that passe to and again to the Close beyond it It is also very plain that all Cattle that are well lusty and not of immediate Use are able to carry themselves to a greater distance but that Wood Corn Hey or the like require much time charge and pains to remove them I appeal therefore whether it be not fitter to send such Cattle further off and have your Corn and Hey and Wood too if need be neerer home And for your young sick or weak or infected Cattle in this Contrivance there is provision made for such as also for your Milch-Cowes at Milking-time so well that till I see some better I rest contented with this I have observed that when the foul or home-sted is too neer the dwelling house as it is in most places it makes the Inhabitants liable to many inconveniences and offensive sights and smels as well within doors as without but here I refer my selfe whether that evil is not remedied and yet the Barns Stables c. neer enough for inspection which is all the reason for their being neer for as you have it in this Contrivance you may at all time swith case view and take accompt of your businesse and yet be as neat and sweet as in a Burgemasters house in Holland Finally here your house stands in the middle of all your little world which you may build as your purse and fancy directs though I could say something as to that in particular which I take to be as effectuall if need were enclosed with the Gardens and Orchards refreshed with the beauty and odour of the blossomes fruits and flowers and the sweet melody of the chirping birds that again encompast with little Closes that all young weak or sick Cattle may be fostered under your own eye without losse or inconvenience and all bound together as with a girdle and surely never had the old proverb ungirt unblest a fitter or fuller sense or application and all that covered again as with a fair large cloak of Meadow and Tillage to which you may commit the corner pasturage the Cape if you please or the Sleeves to the Coat for a Coat as well as a Cloak will serve to cover either knavery or foolery of old customes or negligence Here you have your Bake-house Brew-house Darie or the like your Barns Stables and Out-houses in such apt places as may serve indifferently for all your occasions And no one ground to passe through into another no probability of being trespassed upon by others or by your own but the most perfect right and ample Use of every foot of ground inclosed entire by all which I doubt not will make good what I have sometimes affirmed that besides all other wayes of Improvement that may be farther added this alone in meer point of Contrivance is enough to improve the value of your Estate one half part viz. that if it were really worth 100 li. per annum before it will thus become as really worth 150 li. per annum and the charge in casting it into this forme especially where no fences are already little more in some cases not so much though I must tell you you cannot spare in any case more unhappily then here And besides profit the case and pleasure will be better felt then exprest in words Very much more might be said in order to this but it would too farre exceed the bounds of a Letter and it is also not amisse to see how the World will accept or reject this first From the hands of him who subscribes himself ever SIR Your most faithful thankful Friend and humble Servant Cressey Dymock An Experiment for the multiplying of Corn practised neer Paris in France by some of that new order of Friers who are there called Peres de lâ doctrine Chrestienne INto two French pintes of rain-rain-water they did put a certain quantity of Cow-dung well rotted and as much Sheeps-dung and pigeons dung This water they boiled till but half a pinte was left then they strained it through a linnen cloth and in it dissolved 3 small handfuls of common salt and as much Salt Peter This brine they set in some vessel upon hot ashes and in it they steeped their Seed-corn which being so ordered and at the usuall seed-time being put into barren ground produced unusuall increase I my selfe have seen one hundred and fourteen eares upon one root which they told me came from one single corn so prepared This way of theirs differs not much from that which I found in an old Manuscript and cannot dislike Take saith he rain-water that hath stood in some pool or pond till it putrifie Put into it good store of dung of horses kine sheep goats pigeons hens and any other beast or bird that feeds upon grass or seeds An quia herbarum seminum Vita media vegetativa in stercoribus illis restiterit exaltanda Set this mixture eight dayes in the Sun or if you be in haste boil it over the fire half an hour stirring it all the while afterward strain it and then make it stronger by putting into it more of the foresaid sorts of dung the second time This having stood as before strain out and put into it some common salt and a little Ox-gall Into this liquor put your seed-corn float or scum off all the light corns that swim let the rest lie in the liquor 24 houres Then take out your seed-corn and spread it thin upon a linnen cloth and dry it in the shadow Put this seed into barren ground for in such it will thrive better then in a rich soil you shall reap at least an hundred-fold Another Secret worthy to be tryed by all such as are lovers of the Advancement of Husbandry IN the choice of seed-corn prefer that wheat which is most weighty as being more masculine and fitter for