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1 “Tikely, or thriving, such as will soon require more Milk than his old 
SFanuaries husbandrie. 
> More daintie! the lambe, the more woorth to be sold, 
the sooner the better for eaw that is old. 
But if ye doo minde to haue milke of the dame, 
till Maie doo not seuer the lambe fro the same. 
Ewes yeerly by twinning rich maisters doo make, 
the lamb of such twinners for breeders go take. 
For twinlings be twiggers, encrease for to bring, 
though som for their twigging Peccanfem may sing. 
Calues likely that come between Christmas and Lent, 
take huswife to reare, or else after repent : 
Of such as doo fall betweene change and the prime,? 
no rearing, but sell or go kill them in time. 
Howse calfe, and go sockle it twise in a day, 
and after a while, set it water and hay. 
Stake ragged to rub on, no such as will bend, 
then weane it wel! tended, at fiftie daies end.’ 
The senior weaned his yoonger shall teach, 
how both to drinke water and hay for to reach.‘ 
More stroken and made of when ought it doo aile, 
more gentle ye make it, for yoke or the paile. 
Geld bulcalfe and ramlamb, as soone as they fall, 
for therein is lightly no danger at all. 
Some spareth the ton for to pleasure the eie, 
to haue him shew greater when butcher shall bie. 
Sowes readie to farrow this time of the yeere 
are for to be made of and counted full deere. 
For now is the losse of a fare of the sow 
more great then the losse of two calues of thy cow. 
Dam can afford him.” —T.R. 
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** The first three days after the new moon or change.” —T.R. 
“* At present we rarely wean under twelve weeks.” —T.R. 1710. 
“The hay is given them stuck in cleft sticks.”—T.R. 
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Rearing of 
lambs. 
Rearing ot 
calues. 
Howsing of 
cattel. 
Of gelding. 
