Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
The horse-harrowe is made of fyue
bulles, and passe not an elne of lengthe, and not soo
moche as the other, but they be lyke sloted and tinded. 24
And wha_n_ the corne is well couered, than it is harowed
ynough. There be horse-harowes, that have tyndes of
wodde: and those be vsed moche about Ryppon, and
[Sidenote: Boulder-stones.]
suche other places, where be many bulder-stones. For 28
these stones wold weare the yren to soone, and those
[Sidenote: Tines of the harrow made of ash.]
tyndes be mooste commonly made of the grounde ende of
a yonge asshe, and they be more thanne a fote longe in
the begynnynge, and stande as moche aboue the harowe 32
as benethe.
And as they weare, or breake, they dryue them downe
lower; and they wolde be made longe before, ere they be
occupied, that they maye be drye; for than they shall 36
endure and last moche better, and stycke the faster.
[Sidenote: Horses for harrows.]
The horses that shall drawe these harowes, muste be well
kepte and shodde, or elles they wyll soone be tyred, and
sore beate, that they may not drawe. They must haue 40
hombers or collers, holmes withed about theyr neckes,
[Sidenote: Swingle-tree.]
tresses to drawe by, and a swyngletre to holde the tresses
abrode, and a togewith to be bytwene the swyngletre and
the harowe. And if the barleye-grounde wyll not breake 44
with harrowes, but be clotty, it wolde be beaten with
[Sidenote: [Fol. 13_b_.]]
malles, and not streyght downe; for than they beate the
corne in-to the erthe. And if they beate the clot on
the syde, it wyll the better breake. And the clot wyll lye 48
lyghte, that the corne maye lyghtely come vp. And they
[Sidenote: Rolling the ground.]
vse to role theyr barley-grounde after a shoure of rayne,
to make the grounde euen to mowe, &c.
16. ¶ To falowe.
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