Rearing of 
pigs. 
q 
A way to 
haue large 
bréed of 
hogs. 
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Gelding 
time. 
Gelding of 
horse coltes. 
Gelding of 
1; 
fillies. 
Reare the 
fairest of 
al things. 
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Fanuaries husbandrie. 
Of one sow togither reare few aboue fiue, 
and those of the fairest and likest to thriue. 
Ungelt of the best keepe a couple for store, 
one bore pig and sow pig, that sucketh before. 
Who hath a desire to haue store verie large, 
at Whitsontide let him giue huswife a charge, 
To reare of a sow at once onely but three, 
and one of them also a bore let it bee. 
Geld vnder the dam, within fortnight at least, 
and saue both thy monie and life of the beast. 
Geld later with gelders as many one do, 
and looke of a doozen to geld away two. 
Thy colts for thy saddle geld yoong to be light, 
for cart doo not so, if thou iudgest aright. 
Nor geld not but when they be lustie and fat: 
for there is a point, to be learned in that. 
Geld fillies (but tits) er an nine daies of age, 
they die else of gelding (or gelders doo rage). } 
Yoong fils so likelie of bulke and of bone: 
keepe such to be breeders, let gelding alone. 
For gaining a trifle, sell neuer thy store, 
what ioy to acquaintance, what pleasureth more ? 
The larger of bodie, the better for breede: 
more forward of growing, the better they speede. 
Good milchcow, well fed, that is faire and sound, 
is yeerely for profit as good as a pound: 
And yet by the yeere, I haue prooued er’ now, 
as good to the purse is a sow as a Cow. 
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