Happiness is knowing how to tell the age of sheep

 When sheep is one shear,

they will have two broad teeth before;

when two shear, four;

when three, six; when four, eight:

and, after that, their mouths break.

 

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736)

Happiness is clover when you have no manure

  

 Clover is the best way of improving clays, where manure is scarce.

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736)

Apples harvested too early can taste like the soil

 

 The cyder at first is very luscious, but if ground more early, it is more racy.

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736), The Whole Art of Husbandry