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.

A Sprine-Trap to take the Fox.

TAKE a sti••f Pole, so that it may be pliable; fix the great end fast in the Ground, and tye a line to the end of the upper part, with a loop made fast on with Sooe-makers wax; and to this Line fasten a small short stick, with a nick in its lower end, made thin on the upper side, where the Pole is bound down with it into another stick strongly fastned in the Ground, with a nick likewise under; then joyn both these sticks together, as slightly as they will hold the strong bending down of the Pole; and then open the end of the Line in a running Nooze, and place it in the Foxes ••aunts, as wide as his Head will e••sily go in, or more, (but as covertly as may be, for he is a subtile Creature,)

so that when he presses on it, (the two small sticks pre∣sently seperating,) the bent Pole flys up with a swi•• jerk; and if it take him by the Neck, it certainly hang him; but if by the Legs or Tail, it will hold him abo•• the Ground; but then your Line ought to be small Wires about twenty or thirty well twisted. These Creatures are very troublesom (where they abound) to the Coun∣try People; in making a great destruction among th•••• Lambs, Poultry, and Rabits▪ and in Parks, among the young Fawn.