Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
and as moche lande kepte in tyllage; and than shall not 32
the ryche man ouer-eate the poore man with his cattell,
[Sidenote: You will save in hay and straw.]
and the fourth parte of heye and strawe shall serue his
cattell better in a pasture, than iiii. tymes soo moche wyll
do in a house, and lesse attendaunce, and better the 36
cattel shall lyke, and the chiefe sauegarde for corne bothe
daye and nyghte that can be.
124. ¶ To get settes and set them.
And if thou haue pastures, thou muste nedes haue
quyckesettynge, dychynge and plasshynge. Whan it is
[Sidenote: Quickset hedges.]
grene, and commeth to age, than gette thy quyckesettes
in the woode-countreye, and let theym be of whyte-thorne 4
and crabtree, for they be beste; holye and hasell be good.
And if thou dwelle in the playne-countrey, than mayste
thou gete bothe asshe, oke, and elme, for those wyll
[Sidenote: Set young oaks and ashes.]
encrease moche woode in shorte space. And set thy oke-settes 8
and the asshe .x. or .xii fote a-sonder, and cut them
[Sidenote: [Fol. 53_b_.]]
as thou dost thy other settes, and couer theym ouer with
thornes a lyttell, that shepe and cattell eate them not.
[Sidenote: Clear away the weeds.]
And also wede them clene in mydsomer mone or soone 12
after: for the wedes, if they ouer growe, wyl kyl the settes.
[Sidenote: Never have blackthorn.]
But get no blacke-thorne for nothynge, for that wyl grow
outwarde into the pasture, and doth moch hurte in the
grasse, and tearyng the woll of the shepe. It is good 16
tyme to set quickesettes, fro that tyme the leaues be fallen,
[Sidenote: When to set quicksets.]
vnto oure lady daye in lente; and thy sandye grounde or
grauell set fyrste, than clay grounde, and than meane
grounde, and the medowe or marreys grounde laste, for 20
the sande and grauell wyll drye anone, and than the
quyckeset wyll take no rote, excepte it haue greate weate;
for the muldes wyll lye lose, if it be dyched in February or
[Sidenote: How to set quicksets.]
marche, and lyke wise clay ground. And make thy settes 24
longe ynough, that they maye be set depe ynough in the
erth: for than they wyll growe the better. And to stande
halfe a foote and more aboue the erthe, that they maye
sprynge oute in many braunches. And than to take a lyne, 28
and sette it there as thou wylte haue thy hedge, and to
[Sidenote: Make a straight trench.]
make a trenche after thy lyne, and to pare awaye the
grasse there the quyckesettes shal be set, and caste it by,
[Sidenote: [Fol. 54.]]
where the erthe of the dyche shall lye, and dygge vp the 32
muldes a spade-graffe depe, and to put in thy settes, and
dygge up more molde, and laye vppon that set, and so
peruse, tyll thou haue set all thy settes, and let them lene
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