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 destroy Rats or Mice.

Take an ••arthen or brass Pot, pretty large, fill it with the dross or foot of the Oyl, and set it in any convenient place, where they haunt, about the middle of the place; then shew Pot-Ashes, such as the Sope-boylers use, round about it; and when the scent of the Oyle brings them ha••••ily to it, the Ashes will strike a Scent in their Brain, tha•• will stupesie them, so that they can make but slow has••e away; and thereby you have time to destroy them wi••h such Instruments as are fitting.