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The English Husbandman

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The English Husbandman

Gervase, 1568?-1637 Markham

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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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  1. 1Transcriber's note
  2. 2Contents
  3. 3THE ENGLISH HVSBANDMAN.
  4. 4TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, and his singular good Lord, the Lord Clifton, Baron of Layton.
  5. 5The Epistle to the generall and gentle Reader.
  6. 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.
  7. 7Chap. I. The Proem of the Author. What a Husbandman is: His Vtilitie and Necessitie.
  8. 8Chap. II. Of the situation of the Husbandmans house; the necessaries there to belonging, together with the modell thereof.
  9. 9Chap. III. Of the seuerall parts and members of an ordinarie Plough, and of the ioyning of them together.
  10. 10Chap. IIII. How the Husbandman shall temper his Plough, and make her fit for his worke.
  11. 11Chap. V. The manner of Plowing the rich, stiffe, blacke Clay, his Earings, Plough, and other Instruments.
  12. 12Chap. VI. The manner of plowing the white or gray Clay, his Earings, Plough, and Instruments.
  13. 13Chap. VII. The manner of plowing the red-Sand, his Earings, Plough, and Implements.
  14. 14Chap. VIII. The manner of plowing the white Sand, his Earings, Plough, and Implements.
  15. 15Chap. IX. The manner of plowing the Grauell with Pible stones, or the Grauell with Flint, their Earings, Plough, and implements.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 18Chap. I. Of the manner of plowing all simple Earths, which are vncompounded.

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