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A30748	The office of the good house-wife with necessary directions for the ordering of her family and dairy, and the keeping of all such cattle as to her particular charge the over-sight belongs : also the manner of keeping and governing of silk-wormes and honey-bees, both very delightsome and profitable / by F.B.	F. B.	1672 (1672)	Wing B63; ESTC R22389	45,061	156

Lice may be pickt away and for Scabs if they have any which you may know if straking your hand along their Skins you feel it hackt and rough like a File and the Hair stairing and standing upright for the healing whereof you shall rub them with Butter all over where the Scab is But as it is a great deal better to prevent diseases then to cure them The House-wife shall cause her Calves once or twice a day to be rub'd over with wisps of Straw unbound and suffer not their Piss to stand in Puddles under them but let them be kept with fresh and dry Litter causing their Dung to be carefully cast out every day from among their Litter Of Swine and the Office of the Hog-herd OF all the Cattel that serve for Food the most ravenous the most filthy and the most harmful is the Swine and yet are they had in great estimation and mnch commended amongst us for the sweetness of the Flesh The ravenousness and greedy feeding of this Beast is witnessed by the Sow which the French King killed in Hunting within whose Belly were found six Pails full of Grapes their filthiness and stench their wallowing of themselves their eating of stinking and filthy things as also the harm that they do may be proved by their rooting up and undermining of Walls the trampling about Trees Meadows and unsown places for this cause in a Farm of great Revenues there will need a man only for that purpose to govern and guide them in the Fields even such an one as knoweth how to dress and order his Herd in good time and manner and in cleanly sort to put the Pigs that are weaned in one place with the Bores and Hogs and the Sows with their young ones into a second place by themselves and further that the sick and diseased may have a fresh place by themselves fresh Straw oftentimes given them and renued doth fat them as much as their meat and he must take care that their Troughs be always clean and against variable weather the Hog-herd must have in store much Acrons Beans Crabs wild-pears or some other rotten Fruit or some manner of Pulse or Cole-worts or boiled Turnips to give them and every day when they come from the Field let the good House-wife have in readiness for them hot meat as Whey or the droppings of the Cheese-press mingled with Bran and Water For besides that this good attendance will cause them to make hast home and not forsake their company to run stragling abroad when the Hog-herd hath let them out of the Field these hot Drinks and Meats do also heat the cold Meats which they have fed upon in the Field all the day before And Thirdly they will rest better in the night And Lastly not become so subject to diseases And let there be special care taken that their meat be not cold nor too thin least it cause them to have the Flux of the Belly Let the Swine-coats be paved with Stone or Brick with good passage for their Piss to run away for this Beast though he be Sluttish and Dirty doth notwithstanding prosper best in a clean house and that the corruption of the Air which this Beast maketh in close places especially when they are many in number may not cause them to have any ill sent or other Diseases it is convenient that there be made open Lights or Windows with Bars and that there be shutters to stop them when it snows or in cold Weather the benefit of which Windows will be to let out their evil Air and let in the good Keep not above ten Bores for one hundred Sows and so proportionably the rest as well males as females let them be Gelt Keep those especially for Bores which have a short and broad Head the Snout set high and long the Chine of the Neck large his Feet short his Thighs great and all the rest gross square and well set together of Colour White and full of Brisles upon his Back And for Sows those which are long side-bellied small-headed large-buttockt and sides giving out and likewise of a White Colour of the rest make provision for your house This Beast is a great Eater and cannot endure Hunger especially the Sows which in this necessity have been seen to eat their own Pigs and those of others as also Children in their Cradles and therefore you must have care that their Troughs are never empty They are subject to many diseases and they are known to be sick when they hang their Ears much and become slow and heavy or when they lose their Appetite For the better certainty when there do not appear any of these signs pull from him against the Hair a handful of Brisles off his Back if if they be clean and white at the Root he is sound and healthful but if they be bloody or otherwise spotted he is sick likewise it is commonly said That when a Hog is sick he will neither eat nor drink till he knows whether he shall live or die and therefore when he falls to his meat you may be assured that he begins to mend The Hog by reason of his filthiness hath for the most part one fault or other betwixt his skin and his flesh how sound soever he be and therefore it is good after he is kill'd to singe of his Hair with straw rather then to scald them off with water for the Fire doth draw our a great deal more easily then hot water whatsoever is betwixt the skin and flesh kill your Hogs in the increase of the Moon and let them not drink nor eat the day before you kill them that so their flesh may be the more dry for if they drink till you kill them the salting time will have the greater quantity of superfluous moisture to drink up Cut out as many of the bones as you can for that will cause the salting to be of better effect preserving the flesh the longer from corruption Cover your Bacon all over with bay-salt renewing it once in three days and do this for a Fortnight or more and then hang them up to smoke over a Wood-fire but in any case not too near the heat of the Fire and when they are well smoked which will be in Ten days time if they have a constant Fire then hang them about your Kitchin or other convenient place where they may keep dry The Bacon thus salted will be more fast and of a better Tast then any other way Some cut the flesh in pieces and put it into a salting-tub making as many beds of Salt grosly brayed as of flesh the one above the other and when the Tub is almost full they fill it up with Salt and press all down together with weights but this way is nothing so good though more used by some people and some Countries then the other Of Poultry and first of Hens AS concerning the ordering of Poultry and Fowls which is the next chiefest thing that a

benefit of their labour it must be cast into squares very equal and uniform by the side of the Kitchin-garden It were necessary to have a Garden for Hemp Flax saffron Turnips Parsnips and other things of profit and good Husbandry and on the other side of the Garden of pleasure another Garden for Pease Beans Rice Millet and such other things for they serve greatly for the keeping of a Family The enclosures of the Garden must be such as the commodity and necessity of the place doth require that is to say of Walls if the Revenues of the Farm will bear it or of a strong and thick Quickset Hedge if there want either Stone Brick or Revenues to build the Wall withal Some there be that enclose their Gardens with Banks but nothing to their profit for the moisture of their Gardens which should serve them is thereby conveyed away and taken from them for this way doth no where hold good but in Fenny and Marsh grounds The ground of the Gardens must be good of his own nature free from stones well broken and dunged a year before it be digged to plant in and after it hath been digged and dunged or marled again you must let it rest and drink in its Dung or Marl. As concerning the nature and goodness of it the stiff Clay or sandy ground are worst of all but it must be fat in handling Black in Colour and which crumbleth easily in the breaking or stirring of it with your fingers and becometh small with labouring and generally all grounds that are good for Wheat are good for Gardens it is requisite also to the end it may bring forth green Herbs in abundance that it be reasonable moist for neither that which is very dry nor that which is subject to much wet is good Notwithstanding if the grounds belonging to the Farm happen not to be such you must remedy it as well as you may the stiff Clay and sandy places must be amended by Dung and Marl and would be cast three foot deep the watry places will be made better if you mix with it some sandy or gravelly ground and therewithall cast it round about with Ditches thereby to draw and drein out the water annoying the Garden Thus the good Husband shall do his endeavour to amend and make his ground more fruitful Let the Dung which he layeth upon it be either of Sheep Swine Horses or Pigeons according as the nature of the ground shall require and the elder it is the better also in as much as in time it looseth his filthy stink and whatsoever other evil quality and getteth a new kind of rottenness which is more soft and more easie to be converted into the substance of the Earth whereby good earth is made better and the naughty amended This is the cause why such as have writ of Husbandry in Latine do call Dung Laetamen and French men call it Letiere because it maketh the ground merry that is when it is once mingled and incorporated therewith If it be possible let not your Gardens be on that side the house the Barn or Thrashing-flore is to the end that the Herbs and Flowers may not be hurt by the Dust Dirt small Straw or Chaff which might be blown from the Thrashing-flore unto the Garden by the wind for such Chaff having taken hold upon the leaves doth pierce and fret them through and being thus pierced they burn and parch away presently As there are two times in the year to sowe Herbs so there are two seasons to bring into order and dress Gardens that is to say Autumn and the Spring Let your ground be digged and manured in November which you intend to sowe in the Spring and dig in the Month of May such other grounds as you intend to sowe in Autumn to the end that by the Cold of Winter or by the Heat of summer the Clods may be apt to turn to dust and become short and brittle and all unprofitable Weeds may be killed The time of Sowing ALl Seeds which are for the store of the Kitchin-garden must be sown and removed in the increase of the Moon as namely from the first day unto the sixth and for those that are sown in the decrease they either come up slowly or else be nothing worth besides that although you sowe in the increase of the Moon it sometimes falleth out that notwithstanding your Seed be fat full make a white Flower and be nothing corrupted or hurt yet some evil constellation which the Gardeners do call the course of the Heavens do hinder them that they profit not nor thrive any thing at all If you are disposed to sowe Seeds in Summer it must be in the increase of the Moon of July and August and in Autumn in the increase of the Moon of September and October as also for the Spring in February and March In places naturally Cold or which receive no great Heat from Sun-beams the sowing in the Spring time must be toward the latter end thereof and that in Autumn hastened and early performed and on the contrary the sowing of Seeds in the Spring time in a hot place must be early and the sowing in Autmn late Seeds grow best when they are sown upon warm days or days that are neither hot nor cold Colworts Spinage of all sorts with Succory Garlick Leeks and Onions are sown in Autumn and live all Winter Colworts Rocket Cresses Coriander Navets or Turnips Radishes Parsnips Carots Parsley Fennel and other Herbs whose Roots are good in Pottage are sown in Autumn and in the Spring notwithstanding they grow better being sown in July in hot Countreys and in August in Countries indifferent hot and in September in cold Countries Lettice Sorrel Purslane Cucumbers Gourds Savory Hartshorn Thrick-madam Beets and other tender Herbs as also Artichokes are sown in the Spring and for the most part also those of March and April grow more early then those of February according to the diversity of the time So soon as the ground is full of Seeds in all places you must be careful to water it if the place be dry of its own nature that so the Seed may not be hindred of his sprouting by too much dryness or that the Herb already sprung may not die The best water to water Pot-herbs withall is Rain-water if it fall in the night or in such a time as it may not heat the Herbs for it washeth and cleanseth them from the Dust and Vermin that eateth them especially if the Rain come driving with a Northern wind for want of this the River or Brook-water is best next being a little warm and instead of this Well water drawn in the Morning and put into a Barrel or some other thing of Receit that so it may take the heat of the Sun-beams may serve for cold and Salt-water is an enemy to all sorts of Herbs The time to water them is the Evening and Morning not the mid-day for fear that the