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The senior weaned his yoonger shall teach,
how both to drinke water and hay for to reach.[22]
More [stroken] and made of when ought it doo [aile],
more gentle ye make it, for yoke or the paile.[E179]
Of gelding.
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Geld bulcalfe and ram lamb, as soone as they [fall],
for therein is lightly no danger at all.
Some spareth the ton for to pleasure the eie,
to haue him shew greater when butcher shall bie.
¶
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Sowes readie to farrow this time of the yeere
are for to be made of and counted full deere.
For now is the losse of a fare of the sow
more great then the losse of two calues of thy cow.
¶ Rearing of pigs.
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Of one sow togither reare few aboue fiue,
and those of the fairest and [likest] to thriue.
Ungelt of the best keepe a couple for store,
one bore pig and sow pig, that sucketh before.[E180]
¶ A way to haue large bréed of hogs.
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Who hath a desire to haue store verie large,
at Whitsontide let him giue huswife a charge,
To reare of a sow at once onely but three,
and one of them also a bore let it bee.
¶ Gelding time.