Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices, as also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. : with an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession : to which is added Kalendarium rusticum, or, The husbandmans monthly directions, also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. and Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretation of rustick terms, the whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice.
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Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices, as also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. : with an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession : to which is added Kalendarium rusticum, or, The husbandmans monthly directions, also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. and Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretation of rustick terms, the whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice.
Author
Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698.
Publication
London :: Printed by J.C. for T. Dring :
1675.
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Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
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"Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices, as also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. : with an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession : to which is added Kalendarium rusticum, or, The husbandmans monthly directions, also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. and Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretation of rustick terms, the whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67083.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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DECEMBER.
Day
Sun rise. h. m.
Sun set. h. m.
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8 15
3 45
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Right foot of Gemini sets in the morn.
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The Lesser Dog-star sets in the morn.
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8 17
3 43
Sun in Capricorn, Solstice.
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Arcturus sets in the evening.
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Cor Hydrae sets in the morning.
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8 15
3 45
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Thomas Ap.
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Christmas.
Right shoulder of Orion riseth in the evening.
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St. Stephen.
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8 10
3 50
St. John Evangelist.
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Innocents.
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The left foot of Gemini rises in the evening.
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PHoebus now leaves us the shortest Days and longest nights, is newly entred Capricornus, the most Southern Celestial Sign, and begins his Annual Return; which very much rejoyceth the Countrymans heart, to see a lengthening of the day, although ac∣companied with an increase of Cold. The Earth is generally fast locked up under its frozen Coat, that the Husbandman hath lei∣sure to sit and spend what Store he hath before-hand provided.
Frigoribus parto agricolae plerumque fruuntur,Mutuaque inter se laeti convivia curant.
Now is it time to house old Cattle: cut all sorts of Timber and other Trees for Building, or other Utensils: fell Coppices.
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Plant all sorts of Trees that shed their Leaf, and are Natural to our English Clime, and not too tender.
Let Horses blood: fat Swine, and kill them.
Plough up the Land for Beans; drain Corn-fields where wa∣ter offends, and water or overflow your Meadows.
Destroy Ant-hills.
YOu may now set such Fruit-trees as are not very tender, and subject to the injury of the Frost.
Also transplant any sort of Fruit-trees in open weather: Plant Vines, and other Slips and Cions, and Stocks for Grafting.
Prune Vines if the weather be open.
Cover the Beds of Asparagus, Artichoaks and Strawberries, &c. with warm Horse-litter, Straw, &c. if not covered before.
Sow Beans and Pease if the Winter be moderate: trench ground, and dress it against the Spring.
Set Traps for Vermine, and pick out Snails out of the holes of walls, &c.
Sow or set Bay-berries, Laurel-berries, &c. dropping ripe.
This Month may you dig up Liquorice.
Dig a weedy Hop-garden, and carry Dung into it, and mix it with Earth.