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.

The manner of Settering Cattle.

To do this, take Setter-wort, otherways called H••le∣bore, or Bears-foot, and peeled Garlick, of each a ve•••• small handful, stamp them, and wrap them up in Butter like Pills, then make a little slit in the Dewlap of the Beast two Inches behind the Sticking-place to the Breast∣ward, then open it with your Finger, so that you c•••• make way for one of the Pellets, or more, to lodge in the Vacancy, then run a Rowel, or String through both Li•••• of the Slit, dipped in Tar, or Grease, so that it may keep it together; yet, by drawing, turned round at pleasure: And three days after this is put in, open the Slit, and let o•••• the Corruption, if it be come down, if not, take out the old, and put in new Garlick, and Setter-wort in the for∣mer manner, close it with the Rowel again new anointed, and often turn it round, that the Corruption may slow thence; and if, for all this, you find it much swollen, and hard, so that it will not come away, take a hot Iron, and take up part of the Sore, the Skin and the Flesh in such •• place as is most convenient, but not to come to the Bo••e, and thrust this Iron through both sides, or right under, i•• the swelling be just unde••nea••h, then anoint it with Ta••, and Hogs-Lard; after you have run a little Stick with a

fin•• R••g dipped in Oyl, through the Hole, and having sea••ched it well, apply Oyl of Mallows to heal it up, &c.