56 Nouembers husbandrie. 
Winnowing, 3 Some vseth to winnow,! some vseth to fan, 
fanning, and 
casing: some vseth to cast it as cleane as they can: 
For seede goe and cast it, for malting not so, 
but get out the cockle,’ and then let it go. 
dhreshing -_—_- 4: Thresh barlie as yet but as neede shal require, 
fresh threshed for stoouer thy cattel desire: 
And therefore that threshing forbeare as ye may, 
till Candelmas comming, for sparing of hay. 
5 Such wheat as ye keepe for the baker to buie, 
vnthreshed till March in the sheafe let it lie, 
Least foistnes take it if sooner yee thresh it, 
although by oft turning ye seeme to refresh it. 
Chaffe of 6 Saue chaffe of the barlie, of wheate, and of rie, 
bet from feathers and foistines, where it doth lie, 
Which mixed with corne, being sifted of dust, 
go giue to thy cattel, when serue them ye must. 
7° Greene peason or hastings at Hallontide sowe, 
in hartie good soile he requireth to growe: 
Graie peason or runciuals cheerely to stand, 
at Candlemas sowe, with a plentifull hand. 
§ Leaue latewardly rering, keepe now no more swine, 
but such as thou maist, with the offal of thine: 
Except ye haue wherewith to fat them away, 
the fewer thou keepest, keepe better yee may. 
9 To rere vp much pultrie, and want the barne doore, 
is naught for the pulter and woorse for the poore. 
So, now to keepe hogs and to sterue them for meate, 
is as to keepe dogs for to bawle in the streate. 
1 winnew. I 
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* “*Tf the Cockle be left in, it will work, and some say make the Drink 
the stronger.” —T.R. 
3 Stanzas 7-10 are not in 1577. 
