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duce there as a dairywoman -would — that is to say, when 

 the sows farrow for their pigs, for peacocks and their chicks, 

 if there are any, for geese and their goslings, for capons, 

 cocks, hens, and their chickens and eggs — and she ought to 

 answer for the half of the winnowing of the corn also as 

 the dairywoman. 



The return from cows, heifers, and their milk. 



Each cow ought to yield, from the day after Michaelmas 

 until the first kalends of May, for twenty-eight weeks, one 

 day with another, tenpence for all that time, more or less. 

 And it must be understood that all cows do not yield alike ; 

 some give more, some less, some give milk sooner than 

 others and are sooner dry, and heifers do not give as much 

 milk at their first bearing as after, but, one with another, they 

 ought to yield as much reasonably. And from the morrow 

 after the first kalends of May until Michaelmas, for twenty- 

 four weeks, one day counted with another, makes one hundred 

 and sixty-eight days ; then ought the yield of milk of each 

 cow to be worth, during that time, three shillings and six- 

 pence, and all the other season the yield is worth tenpence, 

 and by this reckoning each cow ought to yield milk to the 

 value of four shillings and fourpence. And be it known that 

 each cow should give as well, from the kalends of May to 

 Michaelmas, six stones of cheese and as much butter as 

 shall make as much cheese — that is to say, always, to 

 seven stones of cheese, one stone of butter. And cheese 

 should always be made from the morrow after Michaelmas 

 until Martinmas, at least; but in the other season, after 

 Christmas until the summer, it is more profitable to the 

 lord to sell the milk than to make cheese, for then a gallon 

 of milk, if sold, is worth as much as three in summer or at 

 another time. And if you should make cheese, then a 

 gallon of milk is not worth more than at another time. 



