For a Hen that Crows.
This sometimes happens, though it is unnatural; there∣fore to remedy it, pull her Wings, and give her to eat, either Barley scorched, or small Wheat, and for several days keep her close from other Poul∣try.
The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush or flying. ... By J. S Gent.
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- The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush or flying. ... By J. S Gent.
- Author
- Smith, John, d. 1684.
- Publication
- London :: printed for Jo. Sprint, at the Blue Bell, and G. Conyers, at the Ring, in Little Britain,
- 1697.
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- Fowling -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush or flying. ... By J. S Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60476.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.