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 |  |
Iunes husbandrie.
Chap. 42.
Calme weather in Iune.
Corne sets in tune.
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
Corne sets in tune.
Forgotten month past,
Doe now at the last.
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Wash sheepe (for ye better) where water doth run,and let him go cleanly and drie in the sun.
Then share him and spare not, at two daies an end:
the sooner the better, his corps will amend.
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2
Reward not thy sheepe (when ye take off his cote,)with twitchis and patches, as brode as a grote.
Let not such vngentlenes, happen to thine:
least flie with hir gentils, doo make it to pine.
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Let lambes go vnclipped, till Iune be halfe worne,the better the fleeses, will growe to be shorne.
The Pie will discharge thee, for pulling the rest:
the lighter the sheepe is, then feedeth it best.
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If meadow be forward, be mowing of some,but mowe as the makers, may well ouercome.
Take heede to the weather, the wind and the skie:
if danger approcheth, then cock apace crie.
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Plough earlie till ten a clock, then to thy hay,in plowing and carting, so profit ye may.
By little and little, thus dooing ye win:
that plough shall not hinder, when haruest comes in.
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Prouide of thine owne, to haue all things at hand,least worke and the workman, vnoccupide stand.
Loue seldome to borowe, that thinkest to saue:
for he that once lendeth, twise looketh to haue.
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Let cart be well searched, without and within.well clouted and greased, er hay time begin.
Thy hay being carried, though carter had sworne:
carts bottome well boorded, is sauing of corne.
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Good husbands that laie, to saue all things vpright,for tumbrels and cart, haue a shed readie dight.
Where vnder the hog may in winter lie warme:
to stand so enclosed, as wind doo no harme.
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So likewise a houell will serue for a roome,to stack on the peason, when haruest shall coome.
And serue thee in winter, more ouer than that:
to shut vp thy porklings, thou mindest to fat.
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Some barnroome haue litle, & yardroome as much,yet corne in the field, appertaineth to such.
Then houels or rikes, they are forced to make:
abrode or at home, for necessities sake.
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Make sure of breadcorne, (of all other graine,)lie drie and well looked to, for mouse and for raine.
Though fitchis and pease, and such other as they:
(for pestring too much) on a houell ye ley.
12
With whinnes, or with furzes, thy houell renew,for turfe and for sedge, for to bake and to brew.
For charcole and sea cole, as also for thacke:
for tallwood and billet, as yeerlie ye lacke.
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What husbandlie husbands, except they be fooles,but handsome haue storehouse, for trinkets and tooles?
And all in good order, fast locked to ly:
what euer is needfull, to find by and by.
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Thy houses and barnes, would be looked vpon,and all things amended, er haruest come on.
Things thus set in order, in quiet and rest:
shall further thy haruest, and pleasure thee best.
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The bushes and thorne, with the shrubs that do noy,in woodsere or sommer, cut downe to destroy.
But where as decay, to the tree ye will none:
for danger in woodsere, let hacking alone.
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At Midsommer, downe with the brembles & brakes,and after, abrode with thy forks and thy rakes.
Set mowers a mowing, where meadow is growne:
the longer now standing, the worse to be mowne.
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Now downe with the grasse vpon hedlonds about,that groweth in shadow, so ranke and so stout.
But grasse vpon hedlond, of barlie and pease:
when haruest is ended, go mowe if ye please.
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Such muddie deepe ditches, and pits in the feeld,that all a drie sommer, no water will yeeld.
By fieing and casting, that mud vpon heapes:
commodities many, the husbandman reapes.
A lesson where and when to plant good Hopyard.
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Whome fancie persuadeth, among other crops,to haue for his spending, sufficient of hops.
Must willinglie follow, of choises to chuse:
such lessons approoued, as skilfull doo vse.
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Ground grauellie, sandie, and mixed with clay,is naughtie for hops, any maner of way.
Or if it be mingled, with rubbish and stone:
for drines and barrennes, let it alone.
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Choose soile for the hop, of the rottenest mould,well doonged and wrought, as a garden plot should.
Not far from the water (but not ouerflowne:)
this lesson well noted, is meete to be knowne.
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The Sunne in the south, or else southly and west,is ioy to the hop, as a welcomed gest.
But wind in the north, or else northly east:
to hop is as ill, as a fraie in a feast.
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Meete plot for a hopyard, once found as is told,make thereof account, as of iewell of gold.
Now dig it, and leaue it, the Sunne for to burne:
and afterward fence it, to serue for that turne.
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