Fiue hundred pointes of good Husbandrie as well for the Champion, or open countrie, as also for the woodland, or Seuerall, mixed in euerie Month with Huswiferie, ouer and besides the booke of Huswiferie, corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a diet for the fermer, of the properties of winds, planets, hops, herbes, bees, and approoued remedies for sheepe and cattle, with many other matters both profitable and not vnpleasant for the Reader. Also a table of husbandrie at the beginning of this booke: and another of huswiferie at the end: for the better and easier finding of any matter conteined in the same. Newly set foorth by Thomas Tusser |
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 | Fiue hundred pointes of good Husbandrie |  |
Octobers husbandrie.
Chap. 17.
October good blast,
To blowe the hog mast,
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
To blowe the hog mast,
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
1
Now lay vp thy barley land, drie as ye can,when euer ye sowe it, so looke for it than.
Get daily aforehand, be neuer behinde:
least winter preuenting do alter thy minde.
2
Who laieth vp fallow, too soone or too wet,with noiances many, doth barley beset.
For weede and the water, so soketh and sucks:
that goodnes from either, it vtterly plucks.
3
Greene rie in September, when timely thou hast,October for wheat sowing calleth as fast.
If weather will suffer, this counsell I giue:
leaue sowing of wheat, before Hallomas eue.
4
Where wheat vpon edish, ye mind to bestowe,let that be the first, of the wheat ye do sowe.
He seemeth to hart it, and comfort to bring:
that giueth it comfort, of Mihelmas spring.
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5
White wheat vpon peaseetch, doth grow as he wold,but fallow is best, if we did as we shold.
Yet where, how, and when, ye entend to begin:
let euer the finest, be first sowen in.
6
Who soweth in raine, he shall reape it with teares,who soweth in harmes, he is euer in feares.
Who soweth ill seede, or defraudeth his land:
hath eie sore abroode, with a coresie at hand.
7
Seede husbandly sowen, water furrow thy ground,that raine when it commeth, may run away round.
Then stir about Nicoll, with arrow and bowe:
take penie for killing of euerie crowe.
A digression to the vsage of diuers countries, concerning Tillage.
8
Each soile hath no liking, of euerie graine,nor barlie and wheat, is for euerie vaine.
Yet knowe I no countrie, so barren of soile:
but some kind of corne, may be gotten with toile.
9
In Brantham, where rie, but no barlie did growe,good barlie I had, as a meany did knowe.
Fiue seame of an aker, I truely was paid:
for thirtie lode muck, of each aker so laid.
10
In Suffolke againe, where as wheat neuer grew,good husbandrie vsed, good wheat land I knew.
This Prouerbe, experience long ago gaue:
that nothing who practiseth, nothing shall haue.
11
As grauell and sand, is for rie and not wheat,(or yeeldeth hir burden, to tone the more great)
So peason and barlie, delight not in sand:
but rather in claie, or in rottener land.
12
Wheat somtime is steelie, or burnt as it growes,for pride or for pouertie, practise so knowes.
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nor after sir peeler, he looueth to dwell.
13
Much wetnes, hog rooting, and land out of hart,makes thistles a number, foorthwith to vpstart.
If thistles so growing, prooue lustie and long:
it signifieth land, to be hartie and strong.
14
As land full of tilth, and in hartie good plight,yeelds blade to a length, and encreaseth in might.
So crop vpon crop, vpon whose courage we doubt:
yeelds blade for a brag, but it holdeth not out.
15
The straw and the eare, to haue bignes and length,betokeneth land to be good, and in strength.
If eare be but short, and the strawe be but small:
it signifieth barenes, and barren withall.
16
White wheat or else red, red riuet or whight,far passeth all other, for land that is light.
White pollard or red, that so richly is set:
for land that is heauie, is best ye can get.
17
Maine wheat that is mixed, with white & with red,is next to the best, in the market mans hed.
So Turkey or Purkey wheat, many doe loue:
because it is flourie, as others aboue.
18
Graie wheat is the grosest, yet good for the clay,though woorst for the market, as fermer may say.
Much like vnto rie, be his properties found:
coorse flower, much bran, and a peeler of ground.
19
Otes, rie, or else barlie, and wheat that is gray,brings land out of comfort, and soone to decay.
One after another, no comfort betweene:
is crop vpon crop, as will quickly be seene.
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Still crop vpon crop, many fermers do take,and reape little profit for greedines sake.
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count peason or brank, as a comfort to land.
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Good land that is seuerall, crops may haue three,in champion countrie it may not so bee.
Ton taketh his season, as commoners may:
the tother with reason, may otherwise say.
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Some vseth at first, a good fallow to make,to sowe thereon barlie, the better to take.
Next that to sowe pease, and of that to sowe wheat:
then fallow againe, or lie lay for thy neat.
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First rie, and then barlie, the champion saies,or wheat before barlie, be champion waies.
But drinke before bread corne, with Middlesex men:
then lay on more compas, and fallow agen.
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Where barlie ye sowe, after rie or else wheat,if land be vnlustie, the crop is not great.
So lose ye your cost, to your coresie and smart:
and land (ouerburdened) is cleane out of hart.
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Exceptions take, of the champion land,from lieng alonge, from that at thy hand.
(Iust by) ye may comfort, with compas at will:
far oft ye must comfort, with fauor and skill.
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Where rie or else wheat, either barlie ye sowe,let codware be next, therevpon for to growe.
Thus hauing two crops, whereof codware is ton:
thou hast the lesse neede, to lay cost therevpon.
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Some far fro the market, delight not in pease,for that ery chapman, they seeme not to please.
If vent of the market place, serue thee not well:
set hogs vp a fatting, to drouer to sell.
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Two crops of a fallow, enricheth the plough,though tone be of pease, it is land good ynough.
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where if ye go furder, lay profit aside.
29
Where peason ye had, and a fallow thereon,some wheat ye may well, without doong therevpon.
New broken vpland, or with water opprest:
or ouer much doonged, for wheat is not best.
30
Where water all winter, annoieth too much,bestowe not thy wheat, vpon land that is such.
But rather sowe otes, or else bullimong there:
gray peason, or runciuals, fitches or tere.
31
Sowe acornes ye owners, that timber doe looue,sowe hawe and rie with them, the better to prooue.
If cattel or Cunnie, may enter to crop:
yong oke is in daunger, of loosing his top.
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Who pescods delighteth, to haue with the furst,if now he do sowe them, I thinke it not wurst.
The greener thy peason, and warmer the roome:
more lusty the layer, more plenty they come.
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Go plow vp or delue vp, aduised with skill,the bredth of a ridge, and in length as you will.
Where speedy quickset, for a fence ye wil drawe:
to sowe in the seede, of the bremble and hawe.
34
Through plenty of acornes, the porkling to fat,not taken in season, may perish by that.
If ratling, or swelling, get once to the throte:
thou loosest thy porkling, a crowne to a grote.
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What euer thing fat is, againe if it fall,thou ventrest the thing, and the fatnes withall.
The fatter the better, to sell or to kil:
but not to continue, make proofe if ye wil.
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What euer thing dieth, go burie or burne,for tainting of ground, or a woorser il turne.
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to cattle and people, great peril may bring.
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Thy measeled bacon hog, sow, or thy bore,shut vp for to heale, for infecting thy store.
Or kill it for bacon, or sowce it to sell:
for Flemming, that loues it so deintily well.
38
With strawisp, and peasebolt, with ferne & the brake,for sparing of fewel, some brewe and do bake.
And heateth their copper, for seething of graines:
good seruant rewarded, refuseth no paines.
39
Good breadcorne and drinkcorne, full xx. weekes kept,is better then new, that at haruest is rept.
But foisty the breadcorne, and bowd eaten malt:
for health or for profit, find noysome thou shalt.
40
By thend of October, go gather vp sloes,haue thou in a readines plentie of thoes.
And keepe them in bedstraw, or still on the bow:
to staie both the flixe, of thy selfe and thy cow.
41
Seeith water, and plump therein plenty of sloes,mix chalke that is dried, in powder with thoes.
Which so, if ye giue, with the water and chalke:
thou makest the laxe, fro thy cow away walke.
42
Be sure of vergis (a gallond at least)so good for the kitchen, so needfull for beast.
It helpeth thy cattel, so feeble and faint:
if timely such cattle, with it thou acquaint.
Thus endeth Octobers husbandrie.
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