[Sidenote: How to buy fat cattle.] If thou shalte bye fatte oxen or kye, handel them, and se that they be soft on the fore-croppe, behynde the shulder, and vpon the hindermost rybbe, and upon the hucbone, and the nache by the tayle. And se 4 the oxe haue a greate codde, and the cowe great nauyll, for than it shulde seme that they shuld be wel [Sidenote: See where, and of whom, you buy.] talowed. And take hede, where thou byeste any leane cattel or fat, and of whom, and where it was bred. For 8 if thou by out of a better grou_n_d than thou haste thy-selfe, that cattell wyll not lyke with the. And also loke, that there be no maner of sycknes amonge the cattell in that towneshyp or pasture that thou byest thy 12 catel oute of. For if there be any murren or longe sought, it is great ieoperdy: for a beast maye take sycknes ten or .xii. dayes or more, ere it appere on hym. 58. ¶ Dyuers sycnesses of cattell, and remedies therfore, and fyrst of murren. [Sidenote: Murrain.] And yf it fortune to fall murren amonge thy beastes, as god forbede, there be men ynough can helpe them. [Sidenote: [Fol. 35_b_.]] And it commeth of a ranknes of bloudde, and appereth moste commonly fyrste in the heed; for his heed wyll 4 swell, and his eyen waxe greate and ronne of water and frothe at the mouthe, and than he is paste remedy, and wyl dye shortely, and wyll neuer eate after he be [Sidenote: Flay the dead beast, and bury it.] sycke. Than flee him, and make a depe pytte faste by, 8 there as he dyeth, and caste hym in, and couer hym with erthe, that noo dogges may come to the caryen. For as many beastes as feleth the smelle of that caryen, are lykely to be enfecte; and take the skynne, and haue it 12 to the tanners to sell, and bryng it not home, for peryll that may fal. And it is commonly vsed, and cometh of [Sidenote: Set the beast’s head, on a pole, in the hedge.] a greate charytie, to take the bare heed of the same beaste and put vpon a longe pole, and set it in a hedge, faste 16 bounden to a stake, by the hyghe-waye syde, that euerye man, that rydethe or goeth that waye, maye se and knowe by that signe, that there is sycknes of cattell in the towneshyp. And the husbandes holde an opynyon, that it shall 20 the rather cease. And whanne the beaste is flaine, there as the murren dothe appere bytwene the flesshe and the skynne, it wyll ryse vppe lyke a ielly and frothe an inche [Sidenote: Remedy for murrain.] depe or more. And this is the remedy for the murren. 24 Take a smalle curteyne-corde, and bynde it harde aboute [Sidenote: [Fol. 36.]] the beastes necke, and that wyll cause the bloudde to come in-to the necke, and on eyther syde of the necke there is a vayne that a man may fele with his fynger; and 28