The husbandman, farmer and grasier's compleat instructor. Containing choice and approved rules, and directions for breeding, feeding, chusing, buying, selling, well ordering and fatning bulls, cows, calves, rams, ews, lambs, swine, goats, asses, mules, &c. : How to know the several diseases incident to them, by their signs and symptoms, with proper remedies to cure them; : as likewise all griefs, and sorrances what-ever. : Also, a treatise of dogs, and conies, in their breeding, ordering, and curing the distempers they are subject to. : To which is added, The experienced vermine-killer, in particular directions, for taking and destroying all sorts of vermine in houses, out-houses, fields, garden, graneries, and other places. / By A.S. Gent.

How to fat your Ox, Steer, Heifer, Cow, &c. the cheapest and and easiest way.

The shortest and cheapest way to fat an Ox, Heiser, &c. Is, Morning and Evening, to give them a sufficient quantity of Meal, Chaff, and Rapes, or Grains, well mingled; and, in their eating, sprinkle them with warm Water, wherein Nettle-Seeds have been boyled: If you perceive they fail in their Stomacks, boyl green Colwort-Leaves in Vinegar, put it down hot with a Drenching Horn, and it will whet and restore their Appetite; give them Wheat-Bran at times, well sifted; and, in Winter, feed at break of day, but in Summer, Sun rising is time enough: Water, in Summer, at Nin•• in the Morning, and Three in the Afternoon; but in Winter, Once a day, with warm Water and Wheat-Bran; and at some convenient distances, give them sweet Hay, and new cut Grass; and, if you turn them out, now and then, into pasture or Airing, let it be sweet, and by no means rank; and so, in a little time, you will perceive their Flesh will increase abundantly, and be well stored with Tallow, to the advantage of the Buyer.