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He was to clear off fern, bracken, thorns, sloe, hawthorn, bramble, whin, and weeds. The names of the months give some idea of Anglo-Saxon methods of farming. May was _Thrimylce_, because the cows might then be milked thrice a day. August was _Weodmonath_ (weed-month), November _Blotmonath_, or blood-month, because the cattle were then killed to supply salt beef for winter time.[70]