Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
therof, to teache the practyue: for it muste leane moche
in-to the forowe, and the poynt may not stande to moch
vp nor downe, nor to moche in-to the lande, nor in-to
[Sidenote: Setting of the coulter.]
the forowe. Howe-be-it, the settynge of the culture 32
helpeth moche. Somme plowes haue a bende of yron
tryanglewise, sette there as the plough-eare shulde be,
that hath thre nyckes on the farther syde. And yf he
[Sidenote: Seed-furrow.]
wyll haue his plough to go a narowe forowe, as a sede-forowe 36
shulde be, than he setteth his fote-teame in the
[Sidenote: Mean furrow.]
nycke nexte to the ploughe-beame; and yf he wyll go
a meane bredth, he setteth it in the myddell nycke,
[Sidenote: Broad furrow.]
that is beste for sturrynge; and if he wolde go a brode 40
forowe, he setteth it in the vttermoste nycke, that is beste
for falowynge: The whyche is a good waye to kepe the
bredthe, and soone tempered, but it serueth not the
depenesse. And some men haue in stede of the plough-fote, 44
a piece of yron set vpryghte in the farther ende
[Sidenote: ‘A coke.’]
of the ploughe-beame, and they calle it a coke, made
with ii. or thre nyckes, and that serueth for depenes.
[Sidenote: Wheel-ploughs.]
The plowes that goo with wheles, haue a streyghte 48
beame, and maye be tempred in the yron, as the other be,
for the bredth; but their most speciall temper is at the
bolster, where-as the plough-beame lyeth, and that
serueth both for depnes and for bredth. And they be 52
[Sidenote: [Fol. 4_b_.]]
good on euen grounde that lyeth lyghte, but me semeth
they be farre more costly than the other plowes. And
thoughe these plowes be well tempred for one maner
grounde, that tempre wyll not serue in an other maner 56
of grounde; but it muste reste in the dyscretion of the
housbande, to knowe whanne it gothe well.
5. ¶ The necessary thynges that belonge to a ploughe,
carte, and wayne.
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