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.

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Title: 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.
Author: A. S., Gent.
Publication: London :: Printed for Henry Nelme, at the Leg and Star, over against the royal Exchange in Cornhil,; 1697.
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Subject terms: Animal breeding -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Domestic animals -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Animal industry -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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To rid a House, or any place of Pismires.

Take the Flower of Brimstone, half a pound; Sale of Ta••tar, or Wine Lees three or four Ounces; mix them o∣ver a gentle Fire, till they become red; then mix and beat the•• with fair Water, till they cool; and when dry again, beat them to a fine powder; put the powder into Water, and let it infuse till the Water is Tinctured, and where∣ever you sprinkle any, the Pismires, or Emets will dye, if they speedily avoid not the place.

Mu••k Shells burnt with Storax, or beaten to powder, will do the like; the smoak of burning the Roots of wild Cucumbers will drive them away out of any House; and Ci••eni••um melted into Oyl, and poured on their Nests, w••ll kill them.