Mr. Barkers Register, &c. 365 
so, as appears by the following quotations from his book, en- 
titled, Five hundred Points of good Husbandry. 
Mays Abstract. 
“ Put lamb from ewe ; 
“ To milk a few. 
“ Be not too bold 
“ To milk and to fold. 
“ Five ewes allow 
“To every cow/' 
Mays Husbandry. 
“ At Philip and Jacob away with the lambs, 
“ That thinkest to have any milk of their dams. 
“ At Lammas leave milking, for fear of a thing, 
“ Lest requiem ceternam in winter they sing. 
“To milk and to fold them is much to require, 
“ Except ye have pasture to fill their desire, 
“ Yet many by milking, such heed they do take, 
“ Not hurting their bodies, much profit do make. 
“ Five ewes to a cow, make proof by a score, 
“ Shall double thy dairy, else trust me no more. 
“ Yet may a good huswife, that knoweth the skill, 
“ Have mixt or unmixt at her pleasure and will.” 
He says, five ewes will give as much milk as one cow ; and 
they used the milk sometimes mixed with cow's milk, and 
sometimes separate. Ewes should not be milked too freely, 
unless they have good pasture ; but with prudent management, 
a profit may be made of milking them ; and he is for doing 
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