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 |  |
Nouembers husbandrie.
Chap. 19.
Nouember take flaile,
Let ship no more saile.
Forgotten month past,
Doc now at the last.
Let ship no more saile.
Forgotten month past,
Doc now at the last.
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At Hallontide , slaughter time entereth in,and then doth the husbandmans, feasting begin.
From thence vnto shrofride, kill now and then some:
their offal for houshold, the better wil come.
2
Thy dredge and thy barley, go thresh out to malt,let maister be cunning, else lose it thou shalt.
Thencrease of a seame, is a bushel for store:
bad else is the barley, or huswife much more.
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3
Some vseth to winnow, some vseth to fan,some vseth to cast it, as cleane as they can.
For seede go and cast it, for malting not so:
but get out the cookle, and then let it go.
4
Thresh barlie as yet, but as neede shal require,fresh threshed for stoouer, thy cattel desire.
And therefore that threshing, forbeare as ye may:
til Candelmas comming, for sparing of hay.
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Such wheat as ye keepe, for the baker to buie,vnthreshed til March, in the sheafe let it lie.
Least foistnes take it, if sooner yee thresh it:
although by oft turning, ye seeme to refresh it.
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Saue chaffe of the barlie, of wheate, and of rie,from feathers and foistines, where it doth lie.
Which mixed with corne, being sifted of dust:
go giue to thy cattel, when serue them ye must.
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Greene peason or hastings, at Hallontide sowe,in hartie good soile, he requireth to growe.
Graie peason, or runciuals, cheerely to stand:
at Candlemas sowe, with a plentifull hand.
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Leaue latewardly rering, keepe now no more swine,but such as thou maist, with the offal of thine.
Except ye haue wherewith, to fat them away:
the fewer thou keepest, keepe better yee may.
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To rere vp much pultrie, and want the barne doore,is naught for the pulter, and woorse for the poore.
So, now to keepe hogs, and to sterue them for meate:
is, as to keepe dogs, for to bawle in the streate.
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As cat a good mouser, is needfull in house,because for hir commons, she killeth the mouse:
So rauening curres, as a meany doo keepe,
makes master want meat, and his dog to kill sheepe.
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(For Easter) at Martilmas, hang vp a beefe,for stalfed and pease fed, plaie pick purse the theefe.
With that and the like, er an grasse biefe come in:
thy folke shal looke cheerelie, when others looke thin.
12
Set garlike and beanes, at S. Edmond the king,the Moone in the wane, thereon hangeth a thing.
Thencrease of a pottle (wel prooued of some):
shal pleasure thy houshold, er peskod time come.
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When raine is a let, to thy dooings abrode,set threshers a threshing, to laie on good lode.
Thresh cleane ye must bid them, though lesser they yarn:
and looking to thriue, haue an eie to thy barne.
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Take heede to thy man, in his furie and heate,with ploughstaff & whipstock, for maiming thy neate.
To thresher for hurting, of cow with his flaile:
or making thy hen, to plaie tapple vp taile.
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Some pilfering thresher, will walke with a staffe,wil carrie home corne, as it is in the chaffe.
And some in his bottle of leather so great:
will carrie home daily, both barlie and wheat.
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If houseroome will serue thee, lay stouer vp drie,and euerie sort, by it selfe for to lie.
Or stack it for litter, if roome be too poore:
and thatch out the residue, noieng thy doore.
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Cause weekly thy thresher, to make vp his flower,though slothfull and pilferer, thereat doo lower.
Take tub for a season, take sack for a shift:
yet garner for graine, is the better for thrift.
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All maner of strawe, that is scattered in yard,good husbandlie husbands, haue daily regard.
In pit full of water, the fame to bestowe:
where lieng to rot, thereof profit may growe.
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Now plough vp thy hedlond, or delue it with spade,where otherwise profit, but little is made.
And cast it vp high, vpon hillocks to stand:
that winter may rot it, to compas thy land.
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If garden requier it, now trench it ye may,one trench not a yard, from another go lay.
Which being well filled, with muck by and by:
go couer with mould, for a season to ly.
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Foule priuies are now, to be clensed and fide,let night be appointed, such baggage to hide.
Which buried in garden, in trenches alowe:
shall make very many things, better to growe.
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The chimney all sootie, would now be made cleene,for feare of mischances, too oftentimes seene.
Old chimney and sootie, if fier once take:
by burning and breaking, soone mischeefe may make.
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When ploughing is ended, and pasture not great,then stable thy horses, and tend them with meat.
Let season be drie, when ye take them to house:
for danger of nittes, or for feare of a louse.
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Lay compas vp handsomly, round on a hill,to walke in thy yard, at thy pleasure and will.
More compas it maketh, and handsom the plot:
if horsekeeper daily, forgetteth it not.
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Make hillocks of molehils, in field thorough out,and so to remaine, till the yeere go about.
Make also the like, whereas plots be too hie:
all winter a rotting, for compas to lie,
Thus endeth Nouembers husbandrie.
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