A notable 

 sodaine 

 effect of 

 Water on 

 hard ground 

 uneasie 

 to bee 

 Trenched. 



The manner 

 of breeding 

 Calves. 



WATER-WORKES. 



sunke the Water, and gave it the liberty 

 of the maine River, that they the next 

 day, easily forced their spades two foote 

 deepe and more. And in this manner, 

 with the water, I suppled the Trench 

 from the beginning to the end, & saved 

 therby a hundred pound at least. 



Many worthy and expert men have 

 written of the breeding of Cattell, whose 

 indeavours I much reverence, and referre 

 them to bee commended by Posterity : 

 Yet, will I venter to lay downe mine 

 experience in the younger sort, for the 

 Falling, Weaning, and Raising of Calves : 

 which (breefly) is this : Those Calves you 

 meane to breed : a month before they fall, 

 lett your Cow or Kine bee well fed with 

 good Hay, that she or they may be the 

 better able to bee delivered of them, and 

 to yeeld plenty of Milke : Uppon their 

 first Calving, suffer them not to have too 

 much milke for three or foure dayes : For 

 in over-sucking them-selves, they will bee 

 so glutted with the plenty and newnesse 

 of it, that nature in them will bee over- 

 come, & be subject to Gillying or Scowr- 

 ing, which wil hinder them for a long 

 time. When they bee five or sixe dayes 

 146 old, 



