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The epitome of the art of husbandry : comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit-trees, and improving of an orchard ... / by J[oseph] B[lagrave]
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Art os Husbandry. ' 5

ting of the Culter, and with the driving of the sameWedges, Fore-wedges and Hind-wedge, whichshould be made of dry wood, and a! so the setting onof his (hare helpeth well, and is a cunning point ofHusbandry, which mendeth and pareth muchploughing; it must lean much into the Furrow, andthe point mulf not stand too much up nor down, nortoo much into the Land, nor into the Furrow. SomePloughs have a Band of Iron triangle-wife, set thereas the Plough-ear should be that hath three nicks onthe further side: And if the Husbandman will have hisPlough to go a narrow Furrow, as a side Furrowshould be, then he must set his Foot-team in the nicknext to the Plough-beam; and if he will go anordinary breadth, he sctteth it in the middlenick, that is best for stirring, and if he would go abroad Furrow, he sctteth it in the uttermost nick,that is the best for following, the which is a goodway to keep the Brede found tempered, butitscr-veth not the deepness: And some men have insteadof thePlough-foor,a piece of Iron set upright in thefurther end of the Plough-beam, they call it a Cock,made with two or three nicks, and that serveth fordeepness. The Ploughs that go with Wheels haveall a straight Beam, and may be tempered in the I-ron, as the other are for the breadth, but their mostspecial temper is at the Bolster, where the Plough-beam lieth, and that serveth for deepness and forbreadth. They arc good on even G round that liethlight, but they are far more coltIv than the otherPloughs. And though these Ploughs be well tem-pered for one manner of Ground, that temper willnot serve for another manner os Ground; but it muterest in the discretion os the Husbandman to knowwhen it goeth well. B 3 Neccf.