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The following table of contents has been added for the reader's convenience.
A Former Part, before the first Part: Being an absoluteperfect Introduction into all the Rules of true Husbandry; and must first of all beread, or the Readers labour will be frustrate.
Chap. I.The Proem of the Author. What a Husbandman is: His Vtilitie and Necessitie.
Chap. II.Of the situation of the Husbandmans house; the necessaries there to belonging, together with the modell thereof.
Chap. III.Of the seuerall parts and members of an ordinarie Plough, and of the ioyning of them together.
Chap. IIII.How the Husbandman shall temper his Plough, and make her fit for his worke.
Chap. V.The manner of Plowing the rich, stiffe, blacke Clay, his Earings, Plough, and other Instruments.
Chap. VI.The manner of plowing the white or gray Clay, his Earings, Plough, and Instruments.
Chap. VII.The manner of plowing the red-Sand, his Earings, Plough, and Implements.
Chap. VIII.The manner of plowing the white Sand, his Earings, Plough, and Implements.
Chap. IX.The manner of plowing the Grauell with Pible stones, or the Grauell with Flint, their Earings, Plough, and implements.
Chap. X.The manner of plowing the blacke Clay mixt with red Sand, and the white Clay mixt with white Sand, their Earings, Plough and Implements.
The First Part of the English Husbandman:Contayning, the manner of plowingand Manuring all sorts of Soyles, togetherwith the manner of planting andsetting of Corne.
Chap. I.Of the manner of plowing all simple Earths, which are vncompounded.
Chap. II.Of the manner of plowing the blacke clay mixt with white sand, and the white clay mixt with red sand: their Earrings, Plough, and Implements.
Chap. III.A comparison of all the former soyles together, and most especiall notes for giuing the ignorant Husbandman perfect vnderstanding, of what is written before.
Chap. IIII.Of the planting or setting of Corne, and the profit thereof.
Chap. V.Of the choice of seede-Corne, and which is best for which soyle.
Chap. VI.Of the time of Haruest and the gathering in of Corne.