[Sidenote: To rear calves.] It is conueniente for a housbande to rere calues, and specyally those that come bytwene Candelmasse and Maye, for that season he may spare mylke beste; and by [Sidenote: [Fol. 39.]] that tyme the calfe shall be wayned, there wyll be grasse 4 ynoughe to put hym vnto. And at winter he wyll be bygge ynoughe to saue hym-selfe amonge other beastes, with a lyttell fauoure. And the damme of the calfe shall bull agayne, and brynge an other by the same time of 8 the yere: and if thou shalt tary tyll after May, the calfe wolde be weyke in wynter, and the damme wolde not bull agayne: but ofte tyme go bareyn. And if thou shalte rere a calfe that commeth after Myghelmasse, it 12 wyll be costly to kepe the calfe all the wynter-season at hey, and the damme at harde meate in the house, as they vse in the playne champyon countrey. And a cowe shall [Sidenote: A cow gives more milk on grass than on hay.] gyue more mylke with a lyttell grasse and strawe, lyenge 16 without in a close, thanne she shall doo with hey and strawe, lyenge in an house; for the harde meate dryeth vp the mylke. But he that hath no pasture, muste do as he may; but yet is it better to the housbande to sell those 20 calues than to rere them, bycause of the cost, and also for the profytte of the mylke to his house, and the rather the cowe wyll take the bull. If the husbande go with an oxe-plough, it is conuenient that he rere two oxe-calues 24 and two cowe-calues at the least, to vpholde his flocke, and if he maye do moo, it wyll be more profyte. [Sidenote: [Fol. 39_b_.]] And it is better, to wayne thy calues at grasse before. And that man, that maye haue a pasture for his kye, and 28 an other for his calues, and water in them both, maye rere and brede good beastes with lyghte coste. And if [Sidenote: Do not wean calves on hay.] thou waine thy calues with hey, it wyl make them haue great belyes, and the rather they wyll rotte whan they 32 come to grasse, and in wynter they wolde be put in a house by them-selfe, and gyuen hey on the nyghtes, and put in a good pasture on the day, and they shal be moche better to handell, whan they shal be kye or oxen. 36 67. ==> To gelde calues.