Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
Howe-be-it there is moche good corne, and rye is
[Sidenote: Sow 2 London bushels to an acre.]
mooste commonlye sowen aboue and harrowed, and two
London busshelles of wheate and rye wyll sowe an acre. 16
Some grounde is good for wheate, some for rye, and
some is good for bothe: and vppon that ground sowe
[Sidenote: [Fol. 25.]]
blend-corne, that is both wheate and rye, the whyche is
the surest corne of growyng, and good for the husbandes 20
[Sidenote: Wheat and rye mixed.]
houshold. And the wheate, that shall be medled with
rye, muste be suche as wyll soone be rype, and that is
flaxen wheate, polerd wheate, or whyte wheate. And ye
shall vnderstande, that there be dyuers maners of wheates. 24
[Sidenote: Flaxen wheat.]
Flaxen wheate hath a yelowe eare, and bare without anis,
and is the bryghtest wheate in the busshell, and wyll
make the whytest breed, and it wyll weare the grounde
sore, and is small strawe, and wyll growe very thycke, 28
[Sidenote: Pollard wheat.]
and is but small corne. Polerde wheate hath noo anis,
thycke sette in the eare, and wyll soone fall out, and is
[Sidenote: White wheat.]
greatter corne, and wyll make whyte breed. Whyte
wheate is lyke polerde wheate in the busshell, but it 32
hath anis, and the eare is foure-square, and wyll make
white breed: and in Essex they call flaxen wheate
[Sidenote: Red wheat.]
whyte wheate. Red wheate hath a flat eare, an inche
brode, full of anis, and is the greatteste corne, and 36
the brodeste blades, and the greatteste strawe, and
wyl make whyte breed, and is the rudeste of colour
in the busshell.
[Sidenote: English wheat.]
Englysshe wheate hath a dunne eare, fewe anis or none, 40
and is the worste wheate, saue peeke-wheate. Peeke-wheete
[Sidenote: Peek-wheat.]
hath a red eare, ful of anis, thyn set, and ofte
[Sidenote: [Fol. 25_b_.]]
tymes it is flyntered, that is to saye, small corne wrynkeled
and dryed, and wyll not make whyte breade, but it wyl 44
growe vpon colde grounde.
35. ¶ To thresshe and wynowe corne.
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