Here is a rare way and necessary for country men to keep their corn from all manner of fowl that do devour corn in the field.
TAke two pennyworth of Stavesacre, and one pennyworth of gun-powder, and half
The countrymans friend, and no circumventing mountebanck. But a rare method of chyrurgery and physick, teaching the country people excellent cures, the likewas [sic] never laid open in any age before. Besides here are four arts, three, of them concerning horses, and the fourth an art to keep a field of corn from any manner of fowles, that devour grain, this art is only by anointing a few crow feathers, for neither pidgeon, sparrow, rook nor crow will endure the field where they stick. By Abraham Miles.
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- The countrymans friend, and no circumventing mountebanck. But a rare method of chyrurgery and physick, teaching the country people excellent cures, the likewas [sic] never laid open in any age before. Besides here are four arts, three, of them concerning horses, and the fourth an art to keep a field of corn from any manner of fowles, that devour grain, this art is only by anointing a few crow feathers, for neither pidgeon, sparrow, rook nor crow will endure the field where they stick. By Abraham Miles.
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- Miles, Abraham.
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- London :: printed for E. Andrews at the White Lyon neer Pye-corner,
- 1662.
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- Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
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"The countrymans friend, and no circumventing mountebanck. But a rare method of chyrurgery and physick, teaching the country people excellent cures, the likewas [sic] never laid open in any age before. Besides here are four arts, three, of them concerning horses, and the fourth an art to keep a field of corn from any manner of fowles, that devour grain, this art is only by anointing a few crow feathers, for neither pidgeon, sparrow, rook nor crow will endure the field where they stick. By Abraham Miles." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50847.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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a penyworth of Sulphure, or brimstone, and half a pennyworth of common Terpentine, mix all these together, and anoint it, at the end of crowes feathers, and stick here and there a crow feather at a lands end, and some tie at the end of a long straw, close under the ear of corn, and them that you stick on the ground you must stick with the quil end down∣ward: This will fright all the fowls that de∣vour corn; neither Pidgeon, Rooke, nor crow, nor Sparrow, will endure the field nor close where these feathers stand, but will flie over the place as if they were frighted.
Probatum est.
FINIS.