A Complete Body of Husbandry Author:Richard Bradley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: C H A P. II. Of Manures, andc. HAVING in the former chapter given my reader an account of the fe- yeral varieties of foils, waters, and of the influence of t... more »he air and iun ; I fhall in this difcourfe fpeak principally of the plough, and begin with fome curious obfervations in the art of husbandry, which were written two hundred years ago, by matter Fitz Harbarde, with my remarks upon them. That gentleman was the author of two finall but judicious pieces, about the year 15-00, one called The Booke of Husbandry, and the other Surveyinge, both which copies have by chance fallen into my hands, and contain very profitable matter relating to agriculture, and efpecially that of the firft days in England, which ought by no means to be loft to the world. I fhall introduce them occafionally in this work in their native drefs, and compare them with the prefent practice. By way of introduction, Mr. Fitz Harbarde gives the farmers the following inftructions, viz. mooffe general Ifopnge tftat carte an rognffeo? breanpnande of 10!)$tljtpt cartel; ann not tlje one totljaut tfje otander- Canden is tande plougfithe moa necef farfeff fnfttutnent tljat an fiusbann can oc cuppe: toanderefo?e it i0 convenient to be fenotoen ljow a plough ftutt be mane. This introdudion mews us the firft rudiments of husbandry that a farmer ought not only to be skilled in the improvement of his land, by fbwing of corn or feeds, but ought alfb to underftand the breeding and the management of cattle; for every farmer is the richer, as he knows how to make the belt ufe of every thing about his farm; and as there is no farm where cattle muft not be employed, fo it is neceflary not only to know how to breed and raile them to the beft advantage at the markets ; but to have juft fo many of them and no more, as...« less