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 take the Buzard, Ring-Tail, Kite, or Hen-Hairer.

These are great destroyers of young Poultry, and young Rabits, and may be taken easily with Lime-twigs, in the following manner:

Take three small Rods growing on the end of the •• or three slender Twigs placed on the end of a pre•• Stick, so ordered, that two may lye on the Ground the third lye over them; the Stick must have a Hole in the end, and a Mouse, or young Chicken stale stales, to make them the speediler swoop and take ought to be alive, so fastened down wi••h a String Peg, in the Ground, that they can but just move •• these Twigs smeered in Bird-lime, upon their swoop take the Stale, will catch hold of their Wings, tha•• tering for a while in vain, they will fall down.

Tou may take them with Springes, or Iron-Trap•• cealed under Leaves, Grass, or Straw; a dead Sta•• the representation of it, being placed so, that at swooping they cannot well fail to be taken by the •• Neck.