¶ How to make barraine ground bring foorth good Corne. If thy ground be barraine and hard, yeelding nothing but ill Hay of insuing profit, then shal it be necessary for thee to vse these secrets in Art which is most auaileable. And first for thy Pease, Beanes, Barley, and Oates, if thou sowest any of them: sowe them vpon the eight day of April, which is the Equinoctiall vernall,[39] when _Libra_[40] draweth the houres of the day and night to an euen and iust proportion, and what Corne is so sowne prospereth greatly: but if thou wilt be assured that no Corne thou sowest shall faile, then take Salt-peeter and mingle with thy Corne, and sow it, and thy labor shall neuer be frustrate. For want of it, take the black dreggs of Oyle, and wette thy seede ere thou sow it, and it shall vndoubtedly spring vp. If thou hast none of these, then take Pigions dunge, and mingle it with thy seede in thy hopper, and sow it: though it be not so good as the other, yet is the profitable vertue wonderfull. =35.= 7. _Kente_] Kent, and Hartfordshiere. 8. _gise_] vse. _Gise_ = guise, way, manner, plan. I. R. has “great safety for sheding the Corne,” retaining here the old use of _for_. 12. I. R. adds--For your seede, if you will be aduised by me, you shall change it alway once in two or three yeare. For to sow continually one seede bred in one soyle it will decay & grow ill: and in your exchange draw it alwayes from the harder soyle, and being brought into a better, it must the rather prosper. =36.= 3. _reed_] reeded. This form is wrong, like our use of _wonted_ for _wont_ (= won-ed). At the end of this section, I. R. closes his First Booke.