To cause encrease of Milk and keep them from Vermin, &c.
To encrease Milk, and make it good when it is naught let your Cattle seed a while on short Clover, then in their dr•• Provinder, give them Cumminseed, and black 〈◊〉〈◊〉 well scattered in it, that they may take it freely; rub the Udders over with Runnet, and afterwards with ••••ats-foot-O••l, and let them drink Water, Strawberry leaves having been bruis'd and steep'd therein. And if a Cow or Heifer b•• barren; and you would remedy it, put her into Fields, o•• other Grounds where Broom grow much about th•• blooming time of it, and by cropping and feeding, her B••ood will be invigorated: Then give her the juice of Gar∣lick and Housleek in a Pint of stale Beer hot, chafe her well with running, and so put her to the Bull.
There are some Cattle of this kind that breed Lice, which stants them, and spoils their growing; these must be rub∣bed over duly, especially every other day whilst the Hu∣mour lasts that creates it, and washed with warm Water wherein Savin has been boiled, also purged with the Deco∣ction of Spurge-Lawrel, a Herb so call'd, and Tobacco∣stalks; and so, the Humour wasted, and the Beast by tha•• g••owing strong, the Effects will cease, &c.
If the Hair fall off, and render these kind of Cattle un∣sightly, as many times by inward Defects it will be occa∣sion'd, boil Briony-roots in the Urine of an Ox, and rub the Beast over with the liquid part when it is hot, and give h••m the juice of Hysop and Spear-Mint in a little Beer to d••ink. Do this often, that is, three or four times, and your Ends will be accomplish'd.