The practical farmer, or, The Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry ... / By William Ellis.

  • Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.
Date:
1732
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Credit: The practical farmer, or, The Hertfordshire husbandman: containing many new improvements in husbandry ... / By William Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    beft way is, when it is in Graft, before it bloffom, to feed it with Milch-Cows, who will tread it down, and make an excellent Lay for Wheat. Moreover, poor Cows will give great ftore of Milk, it happening at that Seafon when uiually other Graffes are burnt up, in a dry hot Summer; lb have you a double Advantage by your Buck-Wheat. A Gentleman in Snjfex faid, he lowed the Buck-Wheat the May before he intended to lay down his Land with Lucern, which Buck-Wheat he ploughed in, and the next Year he had fuch a Crop of Lucern that he was amazed at it. Vetches, and even Turnips, no doubt, fowed with this view, and ploughed in, would do extreamly well. And as French-Wheat will grow on the pooreft Land you have, a better Piece of Husbandry cannot be; for it is the greateft Improver of poor Tandy Ground, and the beft Preparation for Lucern-Grafs, which loves to be Town on this fort of Ground. This French-WhtaXy when fowed to drels the Ground, muft have a fine Tilth, and be Town in May; and when it is knee-high, about the firft of Auguft, and in full Bloom, roll it well, then plough it in, in broad Lands. When this is done, there will fome appear above Ground, between the Furrows that the Plough did not cover. 'This muft be ftruck down with an Iron Inftrument, like a Paddle or Paring-Shovel, and fo let it lie P C 3 three