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.

For the Towering, long sought, that is, Wind-bound, &c.

Much Poverty occasions this Distemper, and is known by their Hides sticking fast to their Backs; their Eyes sincking in their Heads, wheting of their Teeth, loss of Cud, and chusing to be alone.

To remedy this, let blood in the Neck; then take of Rue, Fetherfew, Southernwood, and Rosemary, o•• each a handful; bruise them small, and put them into a quart of strong Ale or Beer; and after they have stood a considera∣ble while, press them hard; then, to the liquid part▪ put long Pepper, Liquorish, Tumerick, and Anniseeds in powder, of each an ounce; half a quartern of Olive Oyl, make them Milk warm, and give the Beast the whole dose at a time; then bore the Dew-laps, and peg them with Bares-foot, or Spearg-grass, anointing the place with Salt and Butter.