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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A gentle purge f•••• Sheep.

If you would have them feed well, when you put them to Grass, especially in the Spring, it will be highly con∣venient that they be moderately purged, which will puri∣fi•• their Blood, by carrying off the gross Humours con∣tr••cted in Winter, and make them grow lusty and Fat. To do this,

Take three or four Sprigs of Spurg-Lawre••, a quarter of an Ounce of Antimony, a handful of dryed Rose∣leaves, if fresh ones are not to be had; bruise and boyl these in new Whey, and give to every one a quarter of a pint, keep them fasting after it 4 or 5 hours; then, if the Weather be warm and open, turn them to grazing in the Field, where there is no Water, for all that day, &c.