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.

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Title: 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.
Author: A. S., Gent.
Publication: London :: Printed for Henry Nelme, at the Leg and Star, over against the royal Exchange in Cornhil,; 1697.
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Subject terms: Animal breeding -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Domestic animals -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Animal industry -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Veterinary medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Observations and other Directions

If May and June prove wet Months, the Proit causes •• frothey Grass, together with the bad Air that must neces∣sarily follow, causes the Rot in Sheep; therefore, in such Summers, keep your Sheep on the dry and barren Lands; Fodder them in Winter with hardest Hay, and most astrin∣gent Fodder.

Some Grounds yield soft Grass above others, and this is subject to breed the Rot in your Sheep; therefore feed o∣ther Cattle there, and your Sheep in the dryest, healthiest, and hardest Pastures.

If they be already infected with the Rot, which you may discern by the colour of their Eyes, pen them up in a Barn, or large Sheep Coat set about, it may be with wooden Troughs, and feed them a day or two with Oats, then put amongst them Bay-salt well stamped, and after that a greater quantity, till such time as they begin to distaste it, then give them clean Oats another day or two, and then as before, serve them with Salt well stamped, and so encrease as directed; follow this course till their Eyes have recovered their natural colour, and then you may assure your self the danger is over, and the Sheep will be well.

If you are not furnished with a convenient House, it may be done in a close warm Yard, or Pingle, if the Wea∣ther be favourably seasonable.

Folding of Sheep in May, or June, if they prove wet, make them Rot the sooner, because they are more greedy devourers in the hurtful Grass in the Morning, than those not folded; therefore, at that time, liberty from the Food is well prevented.