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at sowing shall come up again and be mixed with earth. 

 And if it is spread at second ploughing at sowing it is 

 all the more under the earth and little mixed with it, and 

 that is not profitable. And the nearer the fold is to 

 the sowing the more shall it be worth. At the first feast of 

 our Lady enlarge your fold according as you have sheep, 

 either more or less, for in that time there is much manure. 



HOW YOU OUGHT TO INSPECT .YOUR CATTLE. 



Sort out your cattle once a year between Easter and 

 Whitsuntide — that is to say, oxen, cows, and herds — and 

 let those that are not to be kept be put to fatten ; if you lay 

 out money to fatten them with grass you will gain. And 

 know for truth that bad beasts cost more than good. Why ? 

 I will tell you. If it be a draught beast he must be more 

 thought of than the other and more spared, and because 

 he is spared the others are burdened for his lack. And 

 if you must buy cattle buy them between Easter and Whit- 

 suntide, for then beasts are spare and cheap. And change 

 your horses before they are too old and worn out or maimed, 

 for with little money you can rear good and young ones, if 

 you sell and buy in season. It is well to know how one 

 ought to keep cattle, to teach your people, for when they 

 see that you understand it they will take the more pains 

 to do well. 



HOW YOU OUGHT TO KEEP YOUR BEASTS FOR THE PLOUGH. 



You must keep your plough beasts so that they have 

 enough food to do their work, and that they be not too 

 much overwrought when they come from the plough, for 

 you shall be put to too great an expense to replace them ; 

 besides, your tillage shall be behindhand. Do not put them in 



