Book five hundred points of good husbandry in agriculture
A charming Tudor agriculture and gardening book which contains verses to help people with cultivation husbandrie through the year if pasture by nature is given to wet then bear with the molehill though thick it be That lambe may sit on it and so to sit drie or else to lie by it the warmer to lie February v18 Paperback
A singer and poet as well as a farmer Thomas Tusser c.
Five hundred points of good husbandryn book 1524 80 first produced his verse manual on farming in the mid sixteenth century Since then it has gone through than a dozen editions This 1812 version is a collation of three of the poem s early editions Editor William Mavor 1758 1837 provides a biographical sketch of Tusser modernises the work s orthography and punctuation and includes page by page annotations on subject matter and difficult points of language The work divides into the first half structured around the farming calendar deals with the cultivation of open and enclosed land while the second contains points of huswifery arranged loosely around the working day Tusser writes from the perspective of a tenant farmer notably placing emphasis on the often overlooked benefits of land enclosure as well as on the role of women in farm labour Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry Together with a Book of Huswifery Cambridge Library CollectionLiterary Studies
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