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Homesteading
The English Husbandman
Gervase Markham
247 pages~4 hr 55 min read45 chapters$1.99
Gervase Markham set out to teach an Englishman everything about working his own land. This first part lays the groundwork: the rules of true husbandry, soils, plowing, and the ordering of crops, in the rich prose of the early seventeenth century. A cornerstone of English farming literature. Learn husbandry from the age that named the word.
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45 chapters
- 1Transcriber's note
- 2Contents
- 3THE ENGLISH HVSBANDMAN.
- 4TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, and his singular good Lord, the Lord Clifton, Baron of Layton.
- 5The Epistle to the generall and gentle Reader.
- 6A FORMER PART, before the first Part: Being an absolute perfect Introduction into all the Rules of true Husbandry; and must first of all be read, or the Readers labour will be frustrate.
- 7Chap. I. The Proem of the Author. What a Husbandman is: His Vtilitie and Necessitie.
- 8Chap. II. Of the situation of the Husbandmans house; the necessaries there to belonging, together with the modell thereof.
- 9Chap. III. Of the seuerall parts and members of an ordinarie Plough, and of the ioyning of them together.
- 10Chap. IIII. How the Husbandman shall temper his Plough, and make her fit for his worke.
- 11Chap. V. The manner of Plowing the rich, stiffe, blacke Clay, his Earings, Plough, and other Instruments.
- 12Chap. VI. The manner of plowing the white or gray Clay, his Earings, Plough, and Instruments.
- 13Chap. VII. The manner of plowing the red-Sand, his Earings, Plough, and Implements.
- 14Chap. VIII. The manner of plowing the white Sand, his Earings, Plough, and Implements.
- 15Chap. IX. The manner of plowing the Grauell with Pible stones, or the Grauell with Flint, their Earings, Plough, and implements.
- 16Chap. X. The manner of plowing the blacke Clay mixt with red Sand, and the white Clay mixt with white Sand, their Earings, Plough and Implements.
- 17THE FIRST PART OF THE ENGLISH Husbandman: Contayning, the manner of plowing and Manuring all sorts of Soyles, together with the manner of planting and setting of Corne.
- 18Chap. I. Of the manner of plowing all simple Earths, which are vncompounded.
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