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 Pole-Cat.

This is a great destroyer of Fowle, especially the youn∣ger sort of Poultry; to take them, procure a square piece of Timber, about an hundred weight, boared in the upper side just in the middle, and set fast in it a hooked crook; and in the Ground fasten four forked Stakes, then on them lay two sticks ac••oss, on which lay a long Staff that may hold up the dead-••all by the Crook; and under that Crook you must have a sho•• stick with a Line made fast to it, which may ••each down to the bridge below, that is five or six In••hes broad; and place Boards or Pails on each side the fall, or hedge it with close Rods, about ten Inches, or a Foot high, which guiding her to the Trap, the passage being wider then the ••all is broad, she cannot miss being taken.