For This I Can Assure You
That According To The Rate We Haue Made Proofe Of, One Man May Prepare
And husbane so much grounde (hauing once borne corne before) with lesse
the foure and twentie houres labour, as shall
Yeelde him victuall in a
large proportio for a twelue moeth, if hee haue nothing else, but that
which the same groud will yeelde, and of that kinde onelie which I haue
before spoken of: the saide groud being also but of fiue and twentie
yards square. And if neede require, but that there is ground enough,
there might be raised out of one and the selfsame ground two haruestes
or ofcomes; for they sowe or set and may at anie time when they thinke
good from the middest of March vntill the ende of Iune: so that they
also set when they haue eaten of their first croppe. In some places of
the countrey notwithstanding they haue two haruests, as we haue heard,
out of one and the same ground.
For English corne neuertheles whether to vse or not to vse it, you that
inhabite maie do as you shall haue farther cause to thinke best. Of the
grouth you need not to doubt: for barlie, oates and peaze, we haue seene
proof of, not beeing purposely [b 4] sowen but fallen casually in the
worst sort of ground, and yet to be as faire as any we haue euer seene
here in England. But of wheat because it was musty and hat taken salt
water wee could make no triall:
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