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.

A special way to breed Milk in Kine.

To do this, give the Cow Water wherein Spurg and Lawrel has been boyled, which will gently purge the Blood; then make her good Mashes of Mault and warm Milk; each Evening let her have a quart of Ale, and a quart of Milk mixed together; but then, the Curd taken off, put into it Coriander-seeds, Lettice-seeds, Cummin-seeds and An∣n••-seeds beaten to powder, and when they are well mixed, a••d infused, for three or four hours, give it the Beast,

and in repeating it a few times, she will give store of thick and sweet Milk; if it be in the Winter, to refine her Milk, when b••d, you may let her feed on Turnips, which much cleanse in their green Tops, and purge the Blood.