74 Fanuaries abstract. 
27 Yoong lamb well sold, 
fat lamb woorth goold. 
28 Kéepe twinnes for bréed, 
as eawes haue néed.' 
29 One calfe if it please ye, 
now reared shall ease ye. 
Calues likely reare, 
at rising of yeare. 
Calfe large and leane 
is best to weane. 
30 Calfe lickt take away, 
and howse it? ye may. 
This point I allow 
for seruant and cow. 
31 Calues yonger than other 
learne one of another. 
32 No danger at all 
to geld as they fall. 
Yet Michel cries 
please butchers eies. 
33 Sow ready to fare, 
craues huswiues® care. 
34. Leaue sow but fiue, 
the better to thriue. 
35 Weane such for store 
as sucks before. 
Weane onely but thrée 
large bréeders to bée. 
1 feede. 1577. the 
£ Good milch kow and sound. 
5 both. 1577. 
1577: 
1577- 
36 Lamb, bulchin, and pig, 
geld vnder the big. 
37 Learne wit, sir dolt, 
in gelding of colt. 
38 Geld yoong thy filly, 
else perish will ginny. 
Let gelding alone, 
so large of bone. 
By breathely tits 
few profit hits. 
39 Bréede euer the best, 
and doo of the rest, 
Of long and large, 
take huswife a charge. 
40 Good cow & good ground‘ 
yéelds yéerely a pound. 
Good faring sow 
holds profit with cow. 
41 Who kéepes but® twaine, 
the more may gaine. 
42° Tith iustly, good garson, 
else driue will the parson. 
43 Thy garden twifallow, 
stroy hemlock and mallow. 
44 Like practise they prooue, 
that hops doe looue. 
45 Now make and wand in 
trim bower to stand in. 
3 huswifes. 
1577- 
6 St. 42 is not in 1577. 
