Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
[Sidenote: Bleed the sick cattle.]
than take a bloud-yren, and set it streight vppon the
vayne, and smyte him bloudde on bothe sydes, and let
hym blede the mountenaunce of a pynte or nyghe it, and
than take awaye the corde, and it wyll staunche bleding. 32
And thus serue all thy cattell, that be in that close or
pasture, and there shall no mo be sicke, by goddes leue.
59. ¶ Longe sought, and remedy therefore.
There is an nother maner of sycknesse among bestes,
[Sidenote: ‘Long sought.’]
and it is called longe soughte; and that sickenes wyl
endure lo_n_g, and ye shal perceyue it by his hoystynge;
he wyl stande moche, and eate but a littel, and waxe very 4
[Sidenote: The beast coughs 20 times an hour.]
holowe & thin. And he wil hoyst .xx. times in an houre,
and but fewe of them do mende. The best remedy is to
kepe thy cattell in sondrye places, and as many as were
in companye with that beast that fyrst fell sycke, to let 8
[Sidenote: [Fol. 36_b_.]]
them a lyttel bloude. And there be many men, that can
[Sidenote: Cut the dewlap.]
seuer them, and that is to cutte the dewlappe before, and
there is a grasse that is called feitergrasse, take that
grasse, and broyse it a lyttell in a morter, and thanne put 12
therof as moche as an hennes egge in-to the sayd dewlappe,
and se it fall not oute. Thus I have seen vsed,
and men haue thought it hath done good.
60. ¶ Dewbolne,[28] and the harde remedy therfore.
[Sidenote: ‘Dewbolne.’]
An other dysease amonge beastes is called dewbolne,[28]
and that commeth whan a hungry beaste is put in a
good pasture full of ranke grasse, he wyll eate soo
moche that his sydes wyll stande as hygh as his backe-bone, 4
and other-whyle the one syde more thanne the
other, and but fewe of them wyll dye; but he maye
[Sidenote: The beast is swollen.]
not be dryuen hastely, nor laboured, being so swollen,
and the substaunce of it is but wynde; and therfore 8
he wolde be softly dryuen, and not sytte downe. Howe
[Sidenote: Some men pierce a hole in the beast.]
be it I haue seen a manne take a knyfe, and thruste hym
thorowe the skynne and the flesshe two inches depe, or
more, vi. inches or more from the ridge-bone, that the 12
[Sidenote: [Fol. 37.]]
wynde maye come out. For the wynde lyeth bytwene
the fleshe and the grete paunche.
61. ¶ Rysen vpon, and the remedy therfore.
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