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 |  |
Ianuaries abstract.
Chap. 31.
1
Bid Christmas adew,thy stock now renew.
2
Who killeth a neat,hath cheaper his meat.
Fat home fed souse,
is good in a house.
3
Who dainties loue,a begger shall proue.
Who alway selles,
in hunger dwelles.
4
Who nothing saue,shall nothing haue.
5
Lay durt vpon heapes,some profit it reapes.
When weather is hard,
get muck out of yard.
A fallow bestowe,
where pease shall growe,
Good peason and white,
a fallow will quite.
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6
Go gather quickset,the yongest go get.
Dig garden, stroy mallow,
set willow and sallow.
Greene willow for stake,
in bank will take.
7
Let Doe go to buck,with Conie good luck.
Spare labour nor monie,
store borough with conie.
Get warrener bound,
to vermin thy ground.
Feed Doues, but kill not,
if loose them ye will not.
Doue house repaire,
make Douehole faire.
For hop ground cold,
Doue doong woorth gold.
8
Good gardiner mine,make garden fine.
Set garden pease,
and beanes if ye please.
Set Respis and Rose,
yoong rootes of those.
9
The timelie buier,hath cheaper his fier.
10
Some burns without wit,some fierles sit.
11
Now season is good,to lop or fell wood.
Prune trees some allows,
for cattle to brows.
12
Giue sheepe to their fees,the mistle of trees.
13
Let lop be shorne,that hindreth corne.
Saue edder and stake,
strong hedge to make.
14
For sap as ye knowe,let one bough growe.
Next yeere ye may,
that bough cut away.
15
A lesson good,to encrease more wood.
16
Saue crotchis of wud,saue spars and stud.
Saue hop for his dole,
the strong long pole.
17
How euer ye scotch,saue pole and crotch.
18
From Christmas to May,weake cattle decay.
19
With vergis acquaint,poore bullock so faint.
This medcin approoued,
is for to be looued.
20
Let plaister lie,three daies to trie.
too long if ye stay,
taile rots away.
21
Eawes readie to yeane,craues ground rid cleane.
Keepe sheepe out of briers,
keepe beast out of miers.
22
Keepe bushes from bill,till hedge ye will.
Best had for thy turne,
their rootes go and burne,
23
No bushes of mine,if fence be thine.
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24
In stubbed plot,fill hole with clot.
25
Rid grasse of bones,of sticks and stones.
26
Warme harth giue lams,good food to their dams.
Looke daily well to them,
least dogs vndoo them.
27
Yoong lamb well sold,fat lamb woorth gold.
28
Keepe twinnes for breed,as eawes haue need.
29
One calfe if it please ye,now reared shall ease ye.
Calues likely reare,
at rising of yeare.
Calfe large and leane,
is best to weane.
30
Calfe lickt take away,and howse it ye may.
this point I allow,
for seruant and cow.
31
Calues yonger than other,learne one of another.
32
No danger at all,to geld as they fall.
Yet Michel cries,
please butchers eies.
33
Sow ready to fare,craues huswiues care.
34
Leaue sow but fiue,the better to thriue.
35
Weane such for store,as sucks before.
Weane onely but three,
large breeders to bee.
36
Lamb, bulchin and pig,geld vnder the big.
37
Learne wit sir dolt,in gelding of colt.
38
Geld yoong thy filly,else perish will ginny.
Let gelding alone,
so large of bone.
By breathely tits,
few profit hits.
39
Breede euer the best,and doo of the rest.
Of long and large,
take huswife a charge.
40
Good cow and good ground,yeelds yeerely a pound.
Good faring sow,
holds profit with cow.
41
Who keepes but twaine,the more may gaine.
42
Tith iustly good garson,else driue will the parson.
43
Thy garden twifallow,stroy hemlock & mallow.
44
Like practise they prooue,that hops doo looue.
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Now make and wand in,trim bower to stand in.
Leaue wadling about,
till arbor be out.
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Who now sowes otes,gets gold and grotes.
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gets little that way.
47
Go breake vp land,get mattock in hand.
Stub roote so tough,
for breaking of plough.
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What greater crime,then losse of time?
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Lay land or lease,breake vp if ye please.
But fallow not yet,
that hast any wit.
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Where drinke ye sowe,good tilth bestowe.
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Small profit is found,by peeling of ground.
52
Land past the best,cast vp to rest.
Thus endeth Ianuaries abstract, agreeing with Ianuaries husbandrie.
Other short remembrances.
Get pulling hooke (sirs)
for broome and firs.
Pluck broome, broome still,
cut broome, broome kill.
for broome and firs.
Pluck broome, broome still,
cut broome, broome kill.
Broome pluckt by and by,
breake vp for rie.
Friend ringle thy hog,
or looke for a dog.
breake vp for rie.
Friend ringle thy hog,
or looke for a dog.
In casting prouide,
for seede lay aside.
Get doong, friend mine,
for stock and vine.
for seede lay aside.
Get doong, friend mine,
for stock and vine.
If earth be not soft.
go dig it aloft.
For quamier get bootes,
stub alders and rootes.
go dig it aloft.
For quamier get bootes,
stub alders and rootes.
Hop poles waxe scant,
for poles mo plant.
Set chestnut and walnut,
set filbeard and smalnut.
for poles mo plant.
Set chestnut and walnut,
set filbeard and smalnut.
Peach, plumtree and cherie,
yoong bay and his berie.
Or set their stone,
vnset leaue out none.
yoong bay and his berie.
Or set their stone,
vnset leaue out none.
Sowe kirnels to beare,
of apple and peare.
All trees that beare goom,
set now as they coom.
of apple and peare.
All trees that beare goom,
set now as they coom.
Now set or remooue,
such stocks as ye looue.
such stocks as ye looue.
Here ends Ianuaries short remembrances.
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