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The Book of Husbandry
Anthony Fitzherbert and Walter William Skeat
Printed in 1523, this is the first great farming manual in English, presented in a scholarly edition with the original spelling intact. Fitzherbert explains divers manners of plows, the names of all their parts, and how husbandmen live, in prose that smells of turned earth. Tudor agriculture from a working authority. Five centuries old and still down to earth.
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185 chapters
- 1BOOK OF HUSBANDRY.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3INTRODUCTION.
- 4FOOTNOTES:
- 5ERRATA.
- 6The aucthors prologue.
- 7¶ The table.
- 8The Book of Husbandry
- 91. ¶ Here begynneth the boke of husbandry, and fyrste where-by husbande-men do lyue.
- 102. ¶ Dyuers maners of plowes.
- 113. ¶ To knowe the names of all the partes of the plowe.
- 124. ¶ The temprynge of plowes.
- 135. ¶ The necessary thynges that belonge to a ploughe, carte, and wayne.
- 146. ¶ Whether is better, a plough of horses or a plough of oxen.
- 157. ¶ The dylygence and attendaunce that a husbande shulde gyue to his warke, in maner of an other prologue, and the speciall grounde of all this treatyse.
- 168. ¶ Howe a man shulde plowe all maner of landes all tymes of the yere.
- 179. ¶ To plowe for pease and beanes.
- 1810. Howe to sowe bothe pease and beanes.
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