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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    [ >5 ] Or ye may fpread a little Honey on a Board, which I take to be much better. It is true, feme Years this may not be amifs, efpecially about this Months but if the Fault be in the weaknefs of the Stock, not in the Wetnefs of the paft Summer, they are not worth feeding. 24 Sn tticboto 0? paftiire (to gtoto niojc fine) let camper^ be camping, in anp of tiiinc: a©|)itf) if pc 60 fuffer, topen loto i^ tf)e fp?ing, poll gaine to pout fclf? a commoS^u^ tljing. Camping is Foot-ball playing, at which they are very dextrous in Norfolkand fo many People running up and down a piece of Ground, without doubt evens and faddens it, fo that^he Root of the Grafs lies firm*, altho’ at the fanae time the Horfe-Men do it not much good, efpecially if it be fomewhat low and moift. The trampling of foma^ ny People drive alfo the Mole away. Herewith is concluded our Author’s Twelve Months of Husbandry, which if it hath not profited, may at leaft have diverted the Reader ^ and if the Annotator’s Performance is mean, theDefign is innocent, which by the by, is more than many Weekly or Monthly Papers can fay for them- felves *, and therefore takes leave in thefe Words of our Author at the end of his Life. Orient! al tljing toaib, tpat l)trt faib, Ifnb being got, tfiat paie^ tpe ftot, a^etJjinft of tigljt, bauelcauc % might, (©eath braluetp neere:) ^$0 feebe fonte teaieiS?, mp to pjaie^, Sllnb mercie crane, in time to bane, 5Cnb fo? the red, toh^t h<^ beft, to fuffer F I N I S,