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as a hogge, and is moche better than a hogge, and more a boar is 

 meate on hym and is ready at all tymes to eate in the a hog. 

 wynter season, and to be layde in souse. And a sowe, er 



1 6 she be able to kyl, shall bryng forth as many pyggs or 

 moo, as she is worth ; and her bodye is neuer the worse, 

 and wyll be as good baken as a hogge, and as Ijrttell 

 kep}-nge, but at suche tyme as she hath pygges. And if lFo'-S'-] 



2 thy sowe haue moo pygges than thou wilt rere, sel them, 



or eate them, & rere those pigges that come about lenten- i^ear pigs 'n 



'■ °° spnng and 



time, specyally the beg)'nnynge of somer, for they can-not ea^'y 

 be rered in winter, for cold, without great coste. 



122. 0^ Of bees. 



Of bees is lyttell charge but good attendaunce ; at the 

 tyme that they shall cast the swarme, it is conuenient, that 

 the hyue be set in a garden, or an orchyarde, where as pmthebee- 

 4 they maye be kepte from the northe wynde, and the ^rden or 

 mouthe of the hyue towarde the sonne. And in June °^ 

 and July they do most commonlye caste, and they They com- 

 wolde haue some lowe trees nyghe vnto them before ^r^ in 

 8 the hyue that the swarme maye lyght vpon ; and whan July, 

 the swarme is knytte, take a hyue, and splente it within 

 with thre or foure splentes, that the bees maye knytte 

 theyr combes therto ; and annoynte the splentes, and 



1 2 the sydes of the hyue, with a lyttell honye. And if thou ^^^ ^^ 

 haue no honye, take swete creame, and than set a stole ^^^. 

 or a forme nyghe vnto the swarme, and laye a clene 

 washen shete vppon the stole, and thanne holde the 



i6 smalle ende of the hyue downewarde and shake the [FoI.si*.] 

 bees in-to the hyue, and shortely sette it vppon the stole, 

 and tume vppe the comers of the shete ouer the hyue, 

 and to leue one place open, that the bees may come in 



20 and out : but thou mayst not fight nor stryue with theym ^^^ 



for noo cause ; and to laye nettyls vppon the bowes, ^'^ ''***• 

 where as they were knytte, to drj-ue them from that 



