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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Ianuaries husbandrie.
Chap. 32.
A kindly good Ianiueere,
Freeseth pot by the feere.
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
Freeseth pot by the feere.
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
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When Christmas is ended, bid feasting adue,go play the good husband, thy stock to renue.
Be mindfull of rearing, in hope of a gaine,
dame profit shall giue thee, reward for thy paine.
2
Who, both by his calfe and his lamb, will be knowne,may well kill a neate, and a sheepe of his owne.
And he that can reare vp, a pig in his house:
hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.
3
Who eateth his veale, pig and lamb being froth,shall twise in a weeke, go to bed without broth.
Unskilfull that passe not, but sell away sell:
shall neuer haue plentie, where euer they dwell.
4
Be greedie in spending, and careles to saue,and shortly be needie, and readie to craue.
Be wilfull to kill, and vnskilfull to store:
and looke for no foison, I tell thee before.
5
Lay dirt vpon heapes, faire yard to be seene,if frost will abide it, to feeld with it cleene.
In winter a fallow, some loue to bestowe:
where pease for the pot, they intend for to sowe.
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In making or mending, as needeth thy ditch,get set to quick set it, learne cunningly whitch.
In hedging (where clay is) get stake as ye knowe:
of popler and willow, for fewell to growe.
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Leaue killing of conie, let Doe go to buck,and vermine thy burrow, for feare of ill luck.
Feede Doue (no more killing) old Doue house repaire:
saue doue dong for hopyard, when house ye make faire.
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Dig garden, stroy mallow, now may ye at ease,and set (as a daintie) thy runciuall pease.
Go cut and set roses, choose aptly thy plot:
the rootes of the yoongest, are best to be got.
9
In time go and bargaine, least woorser doo fall,for fewell, for making, for carriage and all.
To buie at the stub, is the best for the buier:
more timelie prouision, the cheaper is fier.
10
Some burneth a lode, at a time in his hall,some neuer leaue burning, til burnt they haue all.
Some making of hauock, without any wit:
make many poore soules, without fire to sit.
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If frost doo continue, this lesson doth well.for comfort of cattel, the fewell to fell.
From euerie tree, the superfluous bows:
now prune for thy neat, therevpon to go brows.
12
In pruning and trimming, all maner of trees,reserue to ech cattel, their properly fees.
If snowe doo continue, sheepe hardly that fare:
craue Mistle and Iuie, for them for to spare.
13
Now lop for thy fewell, old pollenger growen,that hinder the corne, or the grasse to be mowen.
In lopping and felling, saue edder and stake:
thine hedges as needeth, to mend or to make.
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In lopping old Iocham, for feare of mishap,one bough stay vnlopped, to cherish the sap.
The second yeere after, then boldly ye may:
for driping his fellowes, that bough cut away.
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Lop popler, and salow, elme, maple, and prie,well saued from cattle, till Sommer to lie.
So far as in lopping, their tops ye doo fling:
so far without planting, yoong copie will spring.
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Such fewell, as standing a late ye haue bought,now fell it and make it, and doo as ye ought.
Giue charge to the hewers (that many things mars:)
to hew out for crotches, for poles and for spars.
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If hopyard or orchard, ye mind for to haue,for hoppoles, and crotches, in lopping go saue.
Which husbandlie spared, may serue at a push:
and stop, by so hauing, two gaps with a bush.
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From Christmas, till May be well entered in,some cattle waxe faint, and looke poorely and thin.
And cheefly, when prime grasse at first doth appeere:
then most is the danger of all the whole yeere.
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Take vergis and heate it a pint for a cow,bay salt, a hand full to rub tong ye wot how.
That done, with the salt, let hir drinke off the rest:
this manie times raiseth, the feeble vp best.
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Poore bullock with browsing, and naughtily fed,scarse feedeth, hir teeth be so loose in hir hed.
Then slise ye the taile, where ye feele it so soft:
with soote and with garlike, bound to it aloft.
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By brembles and bushes, in pasture too full,poore sheepe be in danger, and loseth their wull.
Now therefore thine ewe, vpon lamming so neere:
desireth in pasture, that all may be cleere.
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Leaue grubbing or pulling of bushes (my sonne)till timely thy fences, require to be donne.
Then take of the best, for to furnish thy turne:
and home with the rest, for the fier to burne.
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In euerie greene, if the fence be not thine,now stub vp the bushes, the grasse to be fine.
Least neighbour doo dailie, so hack them beliue:
that neither thy bushes, nor pasture can thriue.
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In ridding of pasture, with turfes that lie by,fill euerie hole vp, as close as a dy.
The labour is little, the profit is gay:
what euer the loitering labourers say.
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The sticks and the stones, go and gather vp cleene,for hurting of sieth, or for harming of greene.
For feare of Hew prowler, get home with the rest:
when frost is at hardest, then carriage is best.
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Yoong broome or good pasture, thy ewes doo require,warme barthand in safetie, their lambes doo desire.
Looke often well to them, for foxes and dogs:
for pits and for brembles, for vermin and hogs.
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More daintie the lambe, the more woorth to be sold,the sooner the better, for eaw that is old.
But if ye doo minde, to haue milke of the dame:
till Maie, doo not seuer the lambe fro the same.
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Ewes yeerly by twinning, rich maisters doo make,the lamb of such twinners, for breeders go take.
For twinlings be twiggers, encrease for to bring:
though som for their twigging, Peccantem may sing.
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Calues likely that come, between Christmas & Lent,take huswife to reare, or else after repent.
Of such as doo fall, betweene change and the prime:
no rearing, but sell or go kill them in time.
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Howse calfe, and go sockle it twise in a day,and after a while, set it water and hay.
Stake ragged to rub on, no such as will bend:
then weane it well tended, at fiftie daies end.
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The senior weaned, his yoonger shall teach,both how to drinke water, and hay for to reach.
More stroken and made of, when ought it doo aile:
more gentle ye make it, for yoke or the paile.
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Geld bulcalfe, and ramlamb, as soone as they fall,for therein is lightly, no danger at all.
Some spareth the ton, for to pleasure the eie:
to haue him shew greater, when butcher shall bie.
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Sowes readie to farrow, this time of the yeere,are for to be made of, and counted full deere.
For now is the losse of a fare of the sow:
more great than the losse, of two calues of thy cow.
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Of one sow togither, reare few aboue fiue,and those of the fairest, and likest to thriue.
Ungelt of the best, keepe a couple for store:
one bore pig and sow pig, that sucketh before.
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Who hath a desire, to haue store verie large,at Whitsontide, let him giue huswife a charge.
To reare of a sow at once, onely but three:
and one of them also, a bore let it bee.
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Geld vnder the dam, within fortnight at least,and saue both thy monie, and life of the beast.
Geld later with gelders, as many one do:
and looke of a doozen, to geld away two.
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Thy colts for the saddle, geld yoong to be light,for cart doo not so, if thou iudgest aright.
Nor geld not, but when they be lustie and fat:
for there is a point, to be learned in that.
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Geld fillies (but tits) er an nine daies of age,they die else of gelding (or gelders doo rage.)
Yoong fils so likelie, of bulke and of bone:
keepe such to be breeders, let gelding alone.
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For gaining a trifle, sell neuer thy store,what ioy to acquaintance, what pleasureth more?
The larger of bodie, the better for breede:
more forward of growing, the better they speede.
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Good milchcow, well fed, that is faire and sound,is yeerely for profit, as good as pound.
And yet by the yeere, haue I prooued er now:
as good to the purse, is a sow as a cow.
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Keepe one and keepe both, with as little a cost,then all shall be saued, and nothing be lost.
Both hauing togither, what profit is caught:
good huswifes (I warrant ye) need not be taught.
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For lamb, pig and calfe, and for other the like,tithe so, as thy cattle, the Lord doo not strike.
Or if yee deale guilefully, parson will dreue:
and so to your selfe, a worse turne ye may geue.
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Thy garden plot latelie, well trenched and muckt,would now be twifallowd, the mallowes out pluckt.
Well clensed and purged, of roote and of stone:
that falt therein afterward, found may be none.
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Remember thy hopyard, if season be drie,now dig it, and weed it, and so let it lie.
More fennie the laier, the better his lust:
more apt to beare hops when it crumbles like dust.
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To arbor begun, and quick setted about,no poling nor wadling, till set be far out.
For rotten and aged, may stand for a shew:
but hold to their tackling, there doe but a few.
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In Ianuiere, husband that poucheth the grotes,will breake vp his laie, or be sowing of otes.
Otes sowen in Ianiuere, laie by the wheat:
in May by the hay, for the cattle to eat.
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Let seruant be readie, with mattock in hand,to stub out the bushes, that noieth the land.
And cumbersome rootes, so annoieng the plough:
turne vpward their arses, with sorrow inough.
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Who breaketh vp timelie, his fallow or lay,sets forward his husbandrie, many a way.
This trimlie well ended, doth forwardly bring:
not onelie thy tillage, but all other thing.
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Though lay land ye breke vp, whē Christmas is gon,for sowing of barlie, or otes therevpon.
Yet hast not to fallow, til March be begun:
least afterward wishing, it had ben vndun.
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Such land as ye breake vp, for barlie to sowe,two earthes at the least, er ye sowe it bestowe.
If land be thereafter, set oting apart:
and follow this lesson, to comfort thine hart.
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Some breaking vp laie, soweth otes to begin,to suck out the moisture, so sower therein.
Yet otes with hir sucking, a peeler is found:
both ill to the maister, and worse to som ground.
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Land arable, driuen or worne to the proofe,and craueth some rest, for thy profits behoofe.
With otes ye may sowe it, the sooner to grasse:
more soone to be pasture, to bring it to passe.
Thus endeth Ianuaries husbandrie.
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