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bushel; they are very good to make Oatmeal of.Black Oats are as great as they are, but they havenot so much Flour in them, for they have a thickerHusk, nor do they make so good Oatmeal. TheRough Oats are the worst Oats, and it quittethnot the Cost to sow them. They are very light, andhave long Tails, whereby they will hang each onthe other. These several kinds of Oats wear theGround very much, and make it as it were quick.A young Husbandman had need to be careful howthick he soweth all manner of Corn for two or threeyears, and to observe how it cometh up, whetherit be thick enough or not j and if it be too thin, lethim sow thicker the next year; but if it prove well,let him hold his hands for three or four years ; butif it be thin, let him Recollect with himself, whe-ther it proceeds from the unscasonableness of theWeather, or through his thin sowing.

How to sever Pease , Beans , and Fitches.

W Hen the Husbandman hath Threshed hisPease and Beans, after they be winnowed,if he Sow them or Set them, let them be well reedwith Sieves, and let him fever in three parts thegreat from the small, by which means he (hall get inevery Quarter a London bushel, or thereabouts:For the small Corn lieth in the hollow and voidplaces of the great Beans, and yet shall the greatBeans be fold as dear. And therefore he that buy-eth by whole-sale, and Retaileth, must needs be agreat gainer; and he must needs be a loser that setshis Pease, Beans, and Fitches together, for then heloseth his whole-sale; but sever into three parts,there is the more gain. Hots