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.

Other Methods for watering Cattle, and Distempers got by un∣wholsome drinking, c••red.

In Winter, give your Cows and Heifers, often, warm Water, with Bran boiled in it, which is held exceeding good to render them Fruitful, and to make the Cows pro∣duce Milk in a great measure; and in wa••ering those Lakes, or other convenient places filled with R••••in-water, are bet∣ter than any other; for, indeed, they desire not very fair Water to drink; however if their Water be over foul, it will fill their Stomacks with Filth it leaves behind, and hinder Digestion; and if they have unknown to you, drank any muddy Water, that makes them full off from their Feeding, by loss of Appetite, take timely ca••e to re∣store them to that, and a good Cudd.

Take a handful of Peletory of Spain, as much Rue, Fetherfew, Sage, and Horehound; a good handful of Bay-salt, and three pints of new Ale▪ seeth them in the liquor pretty well, and strain out the liquid pa••t, and give it the afflicted Beast blood-warm in the Morning, as near Fasting as may be, and suffer no drinking till the Af∣ternoon.

This is to be perceived by often belching, and a rumbling in the Belly, dullness of the Eyes, and their frequent ••icking themselves, grieving and bemoaning, as it were their Condition.

There is yet another way to Remedy this; when the things before-mentioned; cannot be had without muc•• tro••ble, viz. bind the Tail close by the Rump as h••r•• as may be, give half a pint of Olive Oyl in a pint of Whi••e∣wine, and drive the Beast apace for th•• space of a Mile, then anoint your Hands with Hogs grease, thrust them up the Fundament, and rake well out as much Dung as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 can then drive him again, then let Blood under the Tail n〈…〉〈…〉 the Rump, and unbind him.