. Agricultural writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800. Reproductions in facsimile and extracts from their actual writings, enlarged and revised from articles which have appeared in "The Field" from 1903-1907. To which is added an exhaustive bibliography . LONVON, Printed by A^tte Grips for I o h m H a i i s 0 s, it the golden Unicorne in Pater-aofkr row. 169 ^» c;/;a/./.s-a MARK//am. 95 1 2Book» Anexv way of Harrowing. 6i. To the big end of this harrow, you (hall fixe a ftrong ropewith a Swingle-tree with TreatSjCollefjand Harne(re,andoncHorfcis fully to draw
. Agricultural writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800. Reproductions in facsimile and extracts from their actual writings, enlarged and revised from articles which have appeared in "The Field" from 1903-1907. To which is added an exhaustive bibliography . LONVON, Printed by A^tte Grips for I o h m H a i i s 0 s, it the golden Unicorne in Pater-aofkr row. 169 ^» c;/;a/./.s-a MARK//am. 95 1 2Book» Anexv way of Harrowing. 6i. To the big end of this harrow, you (hall fixe a ftrong ropewith a Swingle-tree with TreatSjCollefjand Harne(re,andoncHorfcis fully to draw it round about the PaftureorMe? with this Harrow you fhill harrow the ground , and it will not oncly break all the hard clots to a very hueduft, but dlfo difperfe them and drive [hem into thegrci;no,and give fuch a comfort fo the tender rr/ots of the young grai!-;,then fpnnsins;, that it will double and treble the if-crcaf-And for mine own paJt, this expeiicnce 1 my iclt nivcfecn upon an exTca-nc barren Pafture ground in iddhfcx,whcrejione cf thclc good or (oylcs could bz got s butths Husbandman was fain to take all ihe rubbifh&co^nfceartheven to the very fw^epings of his yard, and for want of en nij^h of rubbifi! i-thereof to take any ordinary earth he could ca and with ii he fwccp n^^,..dreft the ground in fuch fort as 1 have now laft Ih jwtd you, andthis being done in Mp- ,7, he bad in J/.v. following
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