Hundreth good poyntes of husbandrie : reprinted verbatim ... with all its inaccuracy of orthography, punctuation, etc., from the original edition of 1557; being a calendar of rural and domestic economy, for every month in the year; and exhibiting a picture of the agriculture, customs, and manners of England, in the middle of the sixteenth century. To which is added, The life of Thomas Tusser, written by himself, in verse; and a glossary.

Thomas Tusser

Date:: 1834

Credit: Hundreth good poyntes of husbandrie : reprinted verbatim ... with all its inaccuracy of orthography, punctuation, etc., from the original edition of 1557; being a calendar of rural and domestic economy, for every month in the year; and exhibiting a picture of the agriculture, customs, and manners of England, in the middle of the sixteenth century. To which is added, The life of Thomas Tusser, written by himself, in verse; and a glossary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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49. Weane no time thy calfe vncler xl dales olde : and lay for to sane it as thou sanest golde. yet calues that doe fal betwene change and the prime has seldome to rere them, hut kill them in time. 50. For stores of thy swine he thou carefull betwix : of one sow at one time rere seldome past six. The fewe that she kepe much the better shal bee: of all thing one good is worth steruelinges three. 51. Geld vnder the dame, within fornight at least: and saue both thy money and life of the beast. But gelde with the gelder, as many one doe: and of halfe a dosen, go geld away two. 52. Thy coltes for the sadle geld yong to be light: for cart doe not so if thou iudgest a right. Nor geld not, but when they he lusty and fat: for there is a point to be learned in that. 53. Geld marefoles but titts ere and nine dayes of age: they die els of gelding, some gelders wil gage. But marefoles, both likely of bulke and of bone: kepe such to bring coltes, let their gelding alone. 54. For gaining a trifle sell neuer thy store : for chaunsing on worse then thine owne were before. More larger of body the better for brede : more forward of growing the better they spede. 55. Thy sowes great with fare that come best for to rere loke dayly thou seest them and count them full dere. For that time the losse of one fare of thy sowe : is greater then losse of two calues of thy kowe. 56. A kow good of milk, big of bulke, hayle and sounde, is yerely for profet as good as a pounde. And yet by the yere haue I proued ere now: as good to the purse, is a sow as a kow. 57- Kepe one and kepe both so thou maist if thou wilt: then all shall be sailed and nothing be spilt. Kepe two bease and one sow and liue at thine ease: and no time for nede, bye thy meate hut thou please.

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