The epitome of the whole art of husbandry comprising all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : together with the gentlemans heroick exercise, discoursing of horses, their nature and use ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard / by J.B. Gent.
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The epitome of the whole art of husbandry comprising all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : together with the gentlemans heroick exercise, discoursing of horses, their nature and use ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard / by J.B. Gent.
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Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.
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London :: Printed for Ben. Billingsley and Obadiah Blagrave,
1669.
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Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Fruit-culture.
Horsemanship.
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"The epitome of the whole art of husbandry comprising all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : together with the gentlemans heroick exercise, discoursing of horses, their nature and use ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard / by J.B. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28318.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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To grease Sheep.
IF any Sheep be leabed, the Shepherd may
perceive it by the biting, rubbing, or
scratching with his Horn, and most commonly
the Wool will rise, and be thin or bare in that
place. Then let the Shepherd take him, and
shed the Wool with his fingers there where the
scab is, and with his finger let him lay a little
Tar thereupon, and stroke it in length at
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the bottom of the Wool, that it be not seen
above, and so let him shew the Wool, and lay
a little Tar thereupon, till he have passed the
sore, and then it will go no further.
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