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 order Unruly and Rustick Cattle, &c.

If Cattle are apt to creep Hedges into other Pastures, put Yokes with a cross Beam about their Necks, or a cross Beam on their Horns, boring a little holo into the tip of the Horn, and peg it on: This likewise hinders the Unruly from butting and hurting the Weak and Gentle; and when they are much used to this, some blindfold them, by clap∣ping a piece of a broken Pail or Board before their Eyes, and hang it on their Horns, as also fasten it to their Neck with a String▪ And this is an excellent way, if you have brought them from a distant Farm, that they may not see to leap their Bounds, or gadd and stray back again.

Some Oxen not well tamed, and especially young Steer••, grow restless, and refuse to labour at the Plough, or other∣ways, and will be apt to lye down; and when they bind their Legs where they lye, so that they cannot get loose, thrash them well, and leave them in the Furrow all night without Meat, and coming the next morning, unloose him, and yoke him again, and he will go to your mind, and ne∣ver attempt to lye down, unless excessively over-labour'd, for fear of the like Punishment to be inflicted on him for his stubbornness and failure, &c.