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.

Concluding Instructions relating to the well ordering Sheep.

In Winter, get such Greens as your Sheep will eat, an•• are by the highness of their growth out of their rea•• which will keep their Bodies soluble, and their Blood •• a good temper, much preventing the Rot: In Snowy We••¦ther it lies lightly on the Ground, sweep it off, and yo•• will find sweet Grass, as it were, springing under it, •• reason the Snow keeps it warm, as in a Bed, and secure it from the niping Frost, and sharp Winds, which are the greatest hindrance to it; but this cannot easily be practi∣cable, but for a very few; however, their nibling of it •• that season, much revives them, if it be short, and f••e•• from old dead Stalks. To feed them on ploughed Land, where some Corn springs up again, that was shed out of the Ear before Seed-time, or in Copises, where tender Sprays give them a pleasant brousing, is very wholsome for them, and hinders the Winter Disease very much; and indeed, care ought to be taken of them, for they are o•••• main support of the Country; if you consider the great Commodity and Profit they bring in, their Wooll to Cloath us, their Pelts for sundry necessary Uses, their Fruitfulness and Increase, the delicacy of their Flesh for Nourishment, and the goodness of their Tallow and Suet on many oc∣casions; for the use of Man in Food, Oyntments, Salves, and Medicines. Therefore I shall conclude with the Ver∣ses of the ancient Poet:

Poor Beast, that for defence of Man created wast, And in thy swelling Udder bear'st the Juyce of dainty taste, That with thy Fleece keep'st off the cold that wou'd our Limbs assall, And rather with thy Life, than with thy Death thou dost avail.