Tusser redivivus: being part of Mr. Thomas Tusser's Five hundred points of husbandry; directing what corn, grass, & c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved; with what ever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year / To which are added notes and observations [by Daniel Hillman].

  • Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580.
Date:
1710
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Credit: Tusser redivivus: being part of Mr. Thomas Tusser's Five hundred points of husbandry; directing what corn, grass, & c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved; with what ever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year / To which are added notes and observations [by Daniel Hillman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Smoak dry’d Meat was in much more Reqiieft formerly than it is now a days. It is true, Smoak gives a Firmnefs and Durablenefs which makes it fit for Exportation, tfc' as well as a Gratefulnefs of Tafte. Bur then it is hard of Digeftlon, and liable to much Wafte^ and therefore juftly left off in many Places, and Pickle prefeEd to it, which both better preferves the Meat in its natural Tafle and Sweetnefs, and makes it fpend with iefs Waite, it faves Salt alfo. j z S>tt sarfiftc Iieanc^, at tfte tftcmoonc in tljc toane, tlicrcon fiaugetl) a ttiing: ^i)C incrcafe af a (fee!! pjeuri) of fonurj l|)af picafurc tiip per pcfcoti time come. St. Edmund is on the 20th oi' November^ at v’yhich tim^ it may be very proper to fet Garlick and Beans-, but wdiy the Moon in the Wane? I cannot tell unlefs it be that he thought in the Wane, the Weather grows w^armer and w^armer until the newg becaufe the Moon is then continu-. ally approaching the Sun. I ? IB^en raiiie a let to tfjp a!i:oab, fet tfeeOjcr.s? a to lap hbe : Cff2c® dean pe niuit bin tfiongli !filrr if cp parity ants looliing to gaue an tit to tl]p Same* ' That is, the Plough-man, Florfe-keeper, wdio com¬ monly like not this fort of Work, and if they are not watch'd, will leave more in- the Straw than the Wfojk comes to. 14 ^akt ^cc& to tl^p man, in fiirp an& §cat, toitljp!o!ig^ftatfe,f-tof|ipftocl^,f0? maiming tfjpncad Co tSjjcfl)cr fo: fjurttng^ of coin teitp ^i^ haile^ ■ 02 malting tfip fien^ to p?ap tappk tail. That is, be as much writh your Servants of all forts aS poffbly you can for the Eye of the Mailer makes not only the Horfe fat, but his Work good, and the Servant careful. 15 ^ome pilfering toil toalfte toitf? a ftafr^ toiU carrp ^omr coane^ it i^in ctrafe; ’ A ^