5 8 67. How to geld calves. 



with a lyttell fauoure. And the damme of the calfe shall 



8 bull agayne, and brynge an other by the same time of 



the yere : and if thou shalt tary tyll after May, the calfe 



wolde be weyke in wynter, and the damme wolde not 



bull agayne: but ofte tyme go bareyn. And if thou 



12 shake rere a calfe that commeth after Myghelmasse, it 



wyll be costly to kepe the calfe all the wynter-season at 



hey, and the damme at harde meate in the house, as they 



vse in the playne champyon countrey. And a cowe shall 



A cow gives 1 6 gyue more mylke with a lyttell grasse and strawe, lyenge 



more milk ... ^ <j jo 



on grass without in E closc, thannc she shall doo with hey and 



than on hay. 



Strawe, lyenge in an house ; for the harde meate dryeth 

 vp the mylke. But he that hath no pasture, muste do as 



2o he may ; but yet is it better to the housbande to sell those 

 calues than to rere them, bycause of the cost, and also 

 for the profytte of the mylke to his house, and the rather 

 the cowe wyll take the bull. If the husbande go with 



24 an oxe-plough, it is conuenient that he rere two oxe- 



calues and two cowe-calues at the least, to vpholde his 



flocke, and if he maye do moo, it wyll be more profyte. 



[Foi. 39^.] And it is better, to wayne thy calues at grasse before. 



28 And that man, that maye haue a pasture for his kye, and 



an other for his calues, and water in them both, maye 



rere and brede good beastes with lyghte coste. And if 



Do not wean thou waiue thy calues with hey, it wyl make them haue 



calves on ^ j ' j 



hay. 2 2 great belyes, and the rather they wyll rotte whan they 



come to grasse, and in wynter they wolde be put in a 



house by them-selfe, and gyuen hey on the pyghtes, and 



put in a good pasture on the day, and they shal be moche 



36 better to handell, whan they shal be kye or oxen. 



67. O^f- To gelde calues. 



To geld ox- It is tyme to gelde his oxen calues in the olde of the 



C&lVCSa 



mone, whan they be .x. or .xx. dayes olde, for than it is 



leaste ieoperdye, and the oxe shall be the more hyer, and 



4 the lenger of body, and the le«ger horned : and that maye 



