62 70. What cattle may feed together. 



shorte space the foole, with good kepynge, maye be solde 

 15 for as moche money as wolde bye manycalues and lambes. 



70. \ What cattell shulde go to-gether in one pasture. 



Beastes alone, nor horses alone, nor shepe alone, 



excepte it be shepe vppon a verye hyghe grounde, wyll 



not eate a pasture euen, but leaue many tuftes and hygh 



4 grasse in dyuers places, excepte it be ouer-layde with 



Put beasts cattell. Wherfore knowe that horses and beastes wyll 



and horses 



in a pasture agree well in oone pasture, for there is some maner of 



together. 



[Foi. 42*.] grasse that a horse ^ wyll eate, and the beast wyl 



8 not eate, as the fytches, flasshes, and lowe places, and 



all the holowe bunnes and pypes that growe therin. But 



horses and shepe wyll not so well agree, excepte it be 



shepe to fede, for a shepe wyll go on a bare pasture, and 



12 wyll eate the sweteste grasse : and soo wyll ahorse, but he 



wolde haue it lenger. Howe be it he wyll eate as nyghe 



the erthe as a shepe, but he can not so sone fyll his 



With ICO belly. To an hundred beastes ye maye put ,xx. horses, 



beasts put 20 ■' 



horses. j5 if it be lowe ground, and if there be grasse ynoughe, 



put in an hundred shepe, and so after the rate, be the 



pasture more or lesse. And after this maner they may 



fede and eate the close euen and leue but fewe tuftes. 



20 And if it be an hyghe grounde, put in moo shepe, 



and lesse bestes and horses. Melch kye, and draught 



oxen, wyll eate a close moche barer than as many fatte 



Milch kine kye and oxen. And a melche cowe may haue to moch 



hl°"oo{lT. 24 meate : for if she waxe fatte, she wyll the rather take 



the bull, and gyue lesse mylke. For the fatnes stoppeth 



the poores and the vaines, that shuld brynge the mylke 



to the pappes. And therfore meane grasse is beste 



but have a 28 to kcpe her in a meane estate. And if a cowe be 



diet. "^^'^ fatte, whan she shall calue, than is there great ieoperdy 



in her, and the calfe shall be the lesse : but ye can not 



^ Misprinted or horse ; but the catchwords are a horse. 



