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.

To keep tame Pheasants, Patridges, Quates and other Birds.

These are accounted Dainties, and the ordeing them may not be amiss, to be incerted among Poultry▪

To keep these, you must have a large room, with man little Boxes, so that they may play, run and hide them∣selves

at pleasure; in the middle, set Wheat-sheaves 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them to peck at, and little shallow pans of water, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 when they have pecked the Corn, they may drink at th•• pleasure; give them boyled Malt and Rice, and if y•• would fat them, keep them up in their Boxes, with li•••• Wires before them; give them Chilter-Wheat in Troug•• before them, as also water, and in a Fo••tnight they w•••• answer your Expectation: And thus you may, keep a•• fatten Black-Birds, Feldefares, God-wits, Knots, Grey plover, Curlew, Thrush, and all sorts of Birds, with •• little variation of their feed, as you see them inclined •••• delight in one feed more than another.

Also Herons, Gulls, Bitterns and Pevits; but these latter, must mostly be fed with Flesh, Worms and Fis••, cut small, and have store of water.