A vvay to get wealth : containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. The natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattel, and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, either for war of pleasure. 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, in physick, chirurgery, extraction of oyles, banquets, cookery, ordering of feasts, preserving of wine, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, help, flax, dying, use of dayries, maulting, brewing, baking; and the profit of oats. 4. The inreichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equall with the most fruitful; with the preservation of swine. And a computation of men and cattles labours, &c. 6. The making of orchards, planting and graffing, the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees /
by: Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Published: (1668)