The Book of Husbandry

About this eBook

Author

Fitzherbert, Anthony, 1470-1538

Credits

Produced by MWS, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

S: Agriculture

Subject

Home economics, Rural

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57457

Release Date

July 7, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BOOK OF HUSBANDRY.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION. — FOOTNOTES:
4. 4.ERRATA.
5. 5.The aucthors prologue.
6. 6.¶ The table.
7. 7.The Book of Husbandry — 1. ¶ Here begynneth the boke of husbandry, and fyrste where-by husbande-men do lyue. — 2. ¶ Dyuers maners of plowes. — 3. ¶ To knowe the names of all the partes of the plowe. — 4. ¶ The temprynge of plowes. — 5. ¶ The necessary thynges that belonge to a ploughe, carte, and wayne. — 6. ¶ Whether is better, a plough of horses or a plough of oxen. — 7. ¶ The dylygence and attendaunce that a husbande shulde gyue to his warke, in maner of an other prologue, and the speciall grounde of all this treatyse. — 8. ¶ Howe a man shulde plowe all maner of landes all tymes of the yere. — 9. ¶ To plowe for pease and beanes. — 10. Howe to sowe bothe pease and beanes. — 11. ¶ Sede of discretion. — 12. ¶ Howe all maner corne shoulde be sowen. — 13. ¶ To sowe barley. — 14. To sowe otes. — 15. ¶ To harowe all maner of cornes. — 16. ¶ To falowe. — 17. ¶ To cary out donge or mucke and to sprede it. — 18. ¶ To set out the shepe-folde. — 19. ¶ To cary wodde and other necessaryes. — 20. ¶ To knowe dyuers maner of wedes. — 21. ¶ Howe to wede corne. — 22. ¶ The fyrst sturrynge. — 23. ¶ To mowe grasse. — 24. ¶ Howe forkes and rakes shulde be made. — 25. ¶ To tedde and make hay. — 26. ¶ Howe rye shulde be shorne. — 27. ¶ Howe to shere wheate. — 28. To mowe or shere barley and otes. — 29. ¶ To repe or mowe pees and beanes. — 30. ¶ Howe all maner of cornes shulde be tythed. — 31. ¶ Howe all maner of corne shulde he couered. — 32. ¶ To lode corne, and mowe it. — 33. ¶ The second [25] sturrynge. — 34. To sowe wheat and rye. — 35. ¶ To thresshe and wynowe corne. — 36. ¶ To seuer pees, beanes, and fytches. — 37. ¶ Of shepe, and what tyme of the yere the rammes shulde be put to the ewes. — 38. ¶ To make an ewe to loue her lambe. — 39. ¶ What tyme lambes shulde be wayned. — 40. ¶ To drawe shepe, and seuer them in dyuers places. — 41. ¶ To belte shepe. — 42. ¶ To grease shepe. — 43. ¶ To medle terre. — 44. ¶ To make brome salue. — 45. ¶ If a shepe haue mathes. — 46. ¶ Blyndenes of shepe, and other dyseases, and remedies therfore. — 47. ¶ The worme in the shepes fote, and helpe therfore. — 48. ¶ The blode, and remedy if one come betyme. — 49. ¶ The pockes, and remedy therfore. — 50. ¶ The wode euyll, and remedy therfore. — 51. ¶ To washe shepe. — 52. ¶ To shere shepe. — 53. ¶ To drawe and seuer the badde shepe from the good. — 54. What thynges rotteth shepe. — 55. ¶ To knowe a rotten shepe dyuers maner wayes, wherof some of them wyll not fayle. — 56. ¶ To bye leane cattell. — 57. ¶ To bye fatte cattell. — 58. ¶ Dyuers sycnesses of cattell, and remedies therfore, and fyrst of murren. — 59. ¶ Longe sought, and remedy therefore. — 60. ¶ Dewbolne, [28] and the harde remedy therfore. — 61. ¶ Rysen vpon, and the remedy therfore. — 62. The turne, and remedy therfor. — 63. The warrybrede, and the remedy therfore. — 64. ¶ The foule, and the remedy therfore. — 65. ¶ The goute, without remedy. — 66. ¶ To rere calues. — 67. To gelde calues. — 68. ¶ Horses and mares to drawe. — 69. The losse of a lambe, a calfe, or a foole. — 70. ¶ What cattell shulde go to-gether in one pasture. — 71. ¶ The properties of horses. — 72. ¶ The two properties, that a horse hath of a man. — 73. The .ii. propertyes of a bauson. — 74. The .iiii. properties of a lyon. — 75. The .ix. propertyes of an oxe. — 76. The .ix. propertyes of an hare. — 77. The .ix. propertyes of a foxe. — 78. The .ix. propertyes of an asse. — 79. The .x. properties of a woman. — 80. ¶ The diseases and sorance of horses. — 81. The lampas. — 82. The barbes. — 83. Mournynge of the tonge. — 84. Pursy. — 85. Broken-wynded. — 86. Glaunders. — 87. Mournynge on the chyne. — 88. Stranguellyon. — 89. The hawe. — 90. Blyndnes. — 91. Viues. — 92. The cordes. — 93. The farcyon. — 94. A malander. — 95. A selander. — 96. A serewe. — 97. A splent. — 98. A ryngbone. — 99. Wynd-galles. — 100. Morfounde. — 101. The coltes euyll. — 102. The bottes. — 103. The wormes. — 104. Affreyd. — 105. Nauylgall. — 106. A spauen. — 107. A courbe. — 108. The stringe-halte. — 109. Enterfyre. — 110. Myllettes. — 111. The peynes. — 112. Cratches. — 113. Atteynt. — 114. Grauelynge. — 115. A-cloyed. — 116. The scabbe. — 117. Lowsy. — 118. Wartes. — 119. The sayinge of the frenche-man. — 120. ¶ The diuersitie bytwene a horse-mayster, a corser, and a horse-leche. — 121. ¶ Of swyne. — 122. Of bees. — 123. ¶ Howe to kepe beastes and other cattell. — 124. ¶ To get settes and set them. — 125. ¶ To make a dyche. — 126. ¶ To make a hedge. — 127. ¶ To plasshe or pleche a hedge. — 128. ¶ To mende a hye-waye. — 129. ¶ To remoue and set trees. — 130. ¶ Trees to be set without rotes and growe. — 131. ¶ To fell wodde for housholde, or to sell. — 132. ¶ To shrede, lop, or croppe trees. — 133. ¶ Howe a man shoulde shrede, loppe, or croppe trees. — 134. ¶ To sell woode or tymber. — 135. ¶ To kepe sprynge-wodde. — 136. ¶ Necessary thynges belongynge to graffynge. — 137. ¶ What fruite shuld be fyrste graffed. — 138. ¶ Howe to graffe. — 139. ¶ To graffe bytwene the barke and the tree. — 140. ¶ To nourishe all maner of stone fruite, and nuttes. — 141. ¶ A shorte information for a yonge gentyl-man, that entendeth to thryue. — 142. ¶ A lesson made in Englisshe verses, to teache a gentylmans seruaunt, to saye at euery tyme whan he taketh his horse, for his remembraunce, that he shall not forget his gere in his inne behynde hym. — 143. ¶ A prologue for the wyues occupation. — 144. ¶ A lesson for the wyfe. — 145. ¶ What thynges the wyfe is bounden of ryght to do. — 146. ¶ What warkes a wyfe shulde do in generall. — 147. ¶ To kepe measure in spendynge. — 148. ¶ To eate within the tedure. — 149. ¶ A shorte lesson for the husbande. — 150. ¶ How men of hye degree do kepe measure. — 151. ¶ Prodigalite in outragious and costely aray. — 152. ¶ Of delycyouse meates and drynkes. — 153. ¶ Of outragious playe and game. — 154. ¶ A prologue of the thyrde sayinge of the philosopher. — 155. ¶ A diuersitie betwene predication and doctrine. — 156. ¶ What is rychesse. — 157. ¶ What is the propertie of a riche man. — 158. ¶ What ioyes or pleasures are in heuen. — 159. ¶ What thynges pleaseth god most. — 160. ¶ What be goddes commaundementes. — 161. ¶ Howe a man shulde loue god and please hym. — 162. ¶ Howe a man shulde loue his neyghbour. — 163. ¶ Of prayer that pleaseth god very moche. — 164. ¶ What thynge letteth prayer. — 165. ¶ Howe a man shulde praye. — 166. A meane to put away ydle thoughtes in prayinge. — 167. ¶ A meane to auoyde temptation. — 168. ¶ Almes-dedes pleaseth god moche. — 169. ¶ The fyrste maner of almes. — 170. ¶ The seconde maner of almes. — 171. ¶ The thyrde maner of almes. — 172. ¶ What is the greattest offence that a manne may doo and offende god in. — ¶ The Auctour. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.NOTES. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

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