44 39. W/ien to wean lambs. 



39. ^ What tyme lambes shulde be wayned. 



In some places they neuer seuer their lambes from 

 theyr dammes, and that is for two causes : One is, in 

 the beste pasture where the rammes goo alwaye with 



^asufres^^' 4 theyr ewes, there it nedeth not, for the dammes wil 



themselves" waxc drye, and wayne theyr lambes theym-selfe. An 

 other cause is, he that hath noo seuerall and sounde 



[F0I.28.] pasture, to put his lambes vnto whan they shoulde be 



. 8 wayned, he muste eyther sell them, or let them sucke 



as longe as the dammes wyll sufFre theym ; and it is 



a common sayinge, that the lambe shall not rotte, as 



longe as it souketh, excepte the damme wante meate. 



Lambs to be 12 But he that hath seueral and sounde pasture, it is^tyme 



weaned at r ' j 



16 weeks, or ^q wayuc thcyr lambes, whanne they be .xvi. wekes 



old, or .xviii. at the farthest, and the better shall the 



ewe take the ramme agayne. And the poore man of 



16 the peeke countreye, and suche other places, where as 



they vse to mylke theyr ewes, they vse to wayne theyr 



In the Peak, lambcs at xii. wekes olde, and to mylke theyr ewes 



lambs are 



weaned at fiue Or SA'xe wckcs, &c. But those lambes be neuer 



12 weeks. •' 



20 soo good as the other that sucke longe, and haue 

 meate ynoughe. 



40. ^ To drawe shepe, and seuer them in dyuers places. 



Than thou grasier, that hast many shepe in thy 

 Have a pastures, it is conuenient for the to haue a shepefolde 



large sheep- 



fold; made with a good hedge or a pale, the whiche wyll 



4 receyue all thy shepe easyly that goo in one pasture, 



sette betwene two of thy pastures, in a drye place ; 



[Foi.28i.] and adioynynge to the ende of the same, make an 



another to Other lyttcll folde, that wyll receyue Ixxxx. shepe or 



hold 90 



sheep; g moo, and bothe those foldes muste haue eyther of 



theym a gate in-to eyther pasture, and at the ende 

 of that folde make an other lyttell folde, that wyll 



for 40 sheep. reccyuc .xl. shcpc or mo, and betwene euery folde a 



