The English Husbandman (The Second Booke) /

by Gervase Markham

• [VVhat plashing is.]
• [How to plash.]
• [The time of yeere.]
• [The tooles to plash with.]
• [The profit of plashing.]
• [The lopping of Timber.]
• [What lopping is.]
• [The season for lopping.]
• [How you shall loppe Timber.]

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Chap. VII.

Of Pasture grounds, their order, profit, and generall vse.

The Contents.

• [Diuersitie and vse of Pastures.]
• [Of barraine Pastures.]
• [Signes of barrainnesse.]
• [Bettering of Soyles.]
• [Sowing of good seeds.]
• [For abundance of grasse.]
• [The imperfection of meanure.]
• [To helpe a slow Spring.]
• [To helpe naughty grasse.]
• [To helpe Sunne-burning.]
• [To helpe ling or braken.]
• [To helpe marrishes.]
• [To helpe mossinesse.]
• [The generall vse of barraine grounds.]
• [What Cattell to be bred.]
• [Of fertile grounds.]
• [Deuision of rich grounds.]
• [Vse of rich grounds.]
• [Ordering of Pastures.]
• [Feeding of Cattell.]
• [How to know a fat beast.]
• [Of Meddowes, and their ordering.]
• [Preseruation of Meddowes.]
• [VVhen to lay Meddowes.]
• [VVhen to mowe Meddowes.]
• [Inclination of weather.]
• [The manner to mow Meddowes.]
• [How to make Hay.]
• [To make fine Hay.]
• [To make course Hay.]
• [Vse of Hay for Cattell of all sorts.]

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Chap. VIII.

A new method of the Husbandly curing of all manner of Cattell.

The Contents.