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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    Cm] The mean to be fure is the beft , Horfes and all work¬ ing Cattle ought no more to be pamper’d than under-ied, efp*cially with Corn. ^ 19 ^ome counttie^ arc pint^cb, of mcbotocjS foj |^apj pet cafe it luitlj fitcljes?, ajS toel a.O ti^cp rtsap: tiincis aub t!)?ctS)e&5 anb lju.obanolp bigl^t, ItcepcjS labouring cattle, in berp goob plight*, Fitches or Vetches are of divers forts, of which before, but fince our Authors time, feveral new Gtalles have been found out, which fupply the fame DefeQ. Thole which are moft in Requeft at prefent, are, Clove, Ray-Grals, Nonefuch, and St. Win. io 5n tbjelbing out StcbCiS^one point 51 toil Ibcto, firlt eut fo? fteb, of tlje firclicsi a feto: fSlli^eibfrto lo? tt>p plotobt>?fft:> cleanc fo? tl^pcotoj ttoSJ ojber in |^o?t§ifo!lt goob bnjsbanbisi alfoto. The beft come out firft and eafieft, and therefore moft proper for Seed j what is left in the Straw does the Hor¬ fes good i but neat Cattle, and what chews the Cud, hard Corn is loft upon. 21 Sif ftoft bo continue, tafte tpjS fo? a lato, tlje firatoberrie^ looH, to be couereb toitlj ftrato s Eaib oucriie trim, bpon crotebe? anb botoe^f, nnb after bneouereb, a^ ineat|{er allotoc.sr. gillcaatocr alfo, tge sibilful bo hnoto, both loeb to be couereb, in froft anb in fnoto: <^|c ftnot anb tlje bobber, anb rofemarp gap, bo crane t^e Ubt fuccour, fojbping atoap. It is very comly and looks like delighting in Home, when a Garden is well look’t after at a Farm-Houfe -, not with fine Walks and Winter-Greens, but things ufeful. 2 3 ^I5c looli to tljp bee.^, if t^e btue be to liglit* iet toater anb lionp, initb rofemarp bigljt. IBljic^ let in a bi®, ini of fticftjk in tlje bine, from banger of famine, pe fane t^em aliuct Or