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Here again, in "June's Husbandry," is good provision for hay-making and hauling:—

And here sound practical counsel (sadly neglected too often) for insuring a safe corn-harvest:—

One would have liked to be able to think that so sound a counsellor had made a better trade of farming than he seems to have done. His ideas of being himself captain of every muster of his hands (p. 169), of encouraging them by extra wages at time of stress, and indeed all his suggestive hints, are fresh and pertinent even at this latter day; and if Thomas Tusser were more read, he would not fail of being oftener quoted.