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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- 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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- 1697.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A94232.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- illustration
- THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
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book
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THE
Husbandman, Farmer and Grasier 's COMPLEAT INSTRUCTER, INBreeding, Feeding, Buying and Sell∣ing Cattle,&c. - Proper Seasons for a Heifer or Cow, to take the Bull; and what is to be considered therein, as to a good breed.
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How the
Cow ought to be ordered in Calving, and after; aalso the Calf; and proper times for weaning &c. -
Convenient times to Geld or Spay
Calves, with proper Directi∣ons to do it without endangering Life,&c. -
How to m
nage or order your breed of Cattle in their Stalls, Food, Taming or Breaking. -
Rules to be observed for preserving your Cattle, and in g
plight, with Signs of Sickness &c. -
How to fat your Ox, Steer, Heifer, Cow,
&c. the cheapest and and easiest way. - Instructions for buying of Lean Oxen.
- To find whether a Beast be Sound, Healthy, or the contrary.
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How to chuse a Beast proper for several occasions, as for the Team, Plough, Butcher
&c. - General Rules to know a good Beast.
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G
neral Rules for-chusing, buying, feeding, and speedy satning of Cattle, &c. - To make an old Cow, or Oxes Flesh, tender, and pass for young, a rare Experiment.
- For a Cow that is averse to the Bull, and will not, without much attendance and difficulty, be brought to the Bull.
- To prevent Cows casting their Calves untimely.
- To make a Beast's Horns grow fair and large, and not shed.
- To make Cattle large in growth.
- Barrenness in Kine, a Remedy often Experienced, and much approved.
- To encrease Milk of good-taste and colour.
- To prevent the stairing or unseasonable sheding of the Hair.
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Rules for ordering the Neabeards Stalls,
&c. For the en∣crease, growth and health of Cattle&c.
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Of the Sundry DISEASES and SORRANCES IN
Bulls, Oxen, Cows, Calves, &c. SHEWINGFrom what Cause it Proceeds; the Symtoms to know them by; and approved Receipts for the Safe, Easy, Speedy, and Cheap Cure of them. - A Remedy for the Feaver.
- Murrains of sundry kinds, their Symtoms and proper Remedies
- For Murrain of divers kinds, a Remedy.
- Of the Murrain, beginning in the Throat, and the Remedy for it.
- To cure the swelling in a Beast, occasioned by too much Blood.
- For a Cough, and shortness of Breath.
- For the Head Garget.
- An approved Remedy for the Flux.
- For Madness in a Bull, Ox, or Cow.
- For the Maw Garget.
- For the Yellows, a Remedy.
- Pissing Blood.
- Loss of Cud to restore.
- The Galls over-flowing.
- For any Infection by swallowing poysonous things.
- A Remedy for the Milting of a Beast.
- The swollen Neck and Chest.
- For Putrefying or Rottenness.
- For inward Sicknesses in general.
- For a Feaver in Winter.
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For a dry huskey or hoarse
Cough. - For the Lasks or Ray in Calves, or Cough in young Bullocks.
- To Cure the Manginess or Scab.
- To know when Cattle are Hidebound, and the Remedy.
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For the Staggers in a Bull, Ox, or Cow. The Dasie,
&c. - Pissing blood, Pantasie and Taint.
- For the Worm in the Tail.
- For swelling behind, and rising of the body.
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For the Towering, long sought, that is, Wind-bound,
&c. - For the scowering, long sought.
- To help in making Urine.
- For the swelling Foul.
- For the Foul between the Legs and Claws
- For the Evil.
- To Remedy the Speed in the hinder parts.
- For the biting of the Shrew-Mouse.
- For the stinging of any Venemous Beast.
- For the swelling of the God.
- Over-growing of the Lungs.
- The Blain in Ox or Cow.
- Chollick or violent pains in the Belly.
- For the Quinsey.
- For Worms in the Maw or Bowels.
- For Putrefaction in the Lungs.
- For a Cows Withering.
- Loss of stomack, to Recover.
- For any hard swelling in a Bulls or Oxes Pizle.
- For swollen Feet, or Surbaiting.
- The turning Evil or Sturdy.
- For a swelling Gall or bruise.
- For the Clowse or Chush.
- For Goaring.
- To stanch blood in any Beast.
- For Itching or Mainginess.
- An Excellent Purge to preserve health.
- Another excellent Purge to prevent Sickness.
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To Remedy Ha
ling. - Cramp and Kibes.
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For defects in the Eyes, as Webb, Pin or Haw,
&c. - For any Green Wound.
- A good Medicine for any surprizing sickness, when it is not well known what to be.
- Lice or Ticks afflicting the Beast.
- For the Lasks in large Cattle.
- To help a Beast that is Dewboulen.
- A special way to breed Milk in Kine.
- For the Beasts making Blend-water.
- To take off the Wart, or An-berry.
- For the Eating Sore in the Neck.
- For the Aposthume.
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The mattering Ulcers, Boyles,
&c. - For the inveterate Head-ach.
- Swollen Eyes.
- For weeping, or Rheumatick Eyes.
- For Mattering of the Eyes.
- To recover a clear Sight, in dark, cloudy, or imperfect Eyes.
- For Shails or Nails in the Eye.
- For Spots, Pins, or Webbs in the Eyes.
- Directions to preserve the Lungs.
- For the Ague, an approved Remedy.
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For a Beast that is swelled, by swallowing a
Horse-Leach or poysonous Grubb,&c. - For swelling by over-feeding on Corn and Clover.
- For the Violent Chollick, pains in the Stomack, or Belly.
- For the Brawns.
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To stanch bleeding in a
y Wound, &c. - For the Liver-Sickness.
- For a Pestilential Blain.
- For Blood-pissing, an excellent Receipt.
- For Aches and Pains.
- An approved Remedy for the Mainge.
- For Mattering Sores or Ulcers.
- For Hurts in the Heels.
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For fastening the loose Hoo
. - Bruises under the Hoof.
- A General Remedy.
- A pretious Medicine to prevent inward Sickness.
- For trembling of the Heart, or inward Pains.
- The Gargyse, an approved way to cure.
- For Springes, a speedy Cure.
- For Lameness or Halting.
- For the swelling of the Knees and other Joynts.
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For Hurts in the Heel or Hoof,
&c. - For Kibes in the Heels.
- For the Swelling of the Udders.
- For Feet that are worn or surbated.
- Scabs and unseemly breakings out.
- For any Venomous Wound.
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To make Beasts seed well, and prevent pincing and falling aw
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For Swellings about the Jaws and E
rs, &c. - For swelling or hardness in the Dewlaps.
- For inward wasting.
- The manner of Settering Cattle.
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General Rules for Feeding, Ordering, and Fattening Oxen, and Cows,
&c. -
Other Methods for watering Cattle, and Distempers got by un∣wholsome drinking, c
red. -
To cause encrease of Milk and keep them from Vermin,
&c. -
To order Unruly and Rustick Cattle,
&c.
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A TREATISE OF RAMS, EWS, LAMBS,
&c. SHEWINGHow they ought to be Chosen, Bred, Fed, Order'd, and Cur'd of their sundry Distempers, Griefs, and Sorrances. -
What is to be observ'd in the Choice of
Sheep, with their Good∣ness or Defect in growth,&c. in relation to respective Coun∣ties. -
To make choice of your
Rams andEws for good Breeders, and rear a healthful Stock,&c. -
To know if
Sheep are sound and healthy, or the contrary. -
Divers ways of ordering
Sheep, with the easiest and properMethod for pasturing and feeding them fat, &c. -
Of Housing and Sheep-Cotts; and how they ought to be manag'd and order'd as to Feeding,
&c. -
When the
Ewe ought to be covered, and the Care to be taken therein, and in their yeaning or bringing forth,&c. -
How to order your
Lambs after they are cast: Proper Times and Seasons for Gelding,&c. -
Sheering of
Sheep, and other matters necessary to be known, lating to Growth and Preservation. -
Diseases and Sorrances incident to
Rams, Weathers, Ews, andLambs, with the most approved Receipts and Remedies for them, and Directions to keep them from Sickness,&c. - The Head-ach, its Cause and Cure.
- For Giddiness or Dasie.
- For loss of Cudd.
- For the Ague in Sheep.
- For the Rheum and Catarrh.
- For Pains in the Teeth.
- For the Aposthume and Ulcer.
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St.
Anthony's Fire. -
For the Ro
, or Plague. - For the Scab, or Itch.
- For any Defect in the Lungs.
- For the shortness of Breath, and Cough.
- For taking in any venomus thing in feading.
- For the swelling of the Belly.
- For Lame or hurt Claws.
- To kill Lice and Maggots.
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For broken Bones, or bruised Joynts,
&c. - For the Feaver in Sheep.
- For the Worm in the Claw.
- For the red Water.
- For the Choler.
- For the Jaundice.
- For the Flegm.
- For the Water in the Belly of a Sheep.
- For the Cramp.
- For the Pox.
- For the turning Evil and Morfound.
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For the Be
t. - To fasten loose Teeth.
- For Worms in the Belly of a Sheep.
- An excellent Remedy for the Staggers.
- For the Murrain.
- For Defects in the Eyes.
- For Rheums in the Eyes.
- For the Scabs on the Mouths of Lambs.
- For the falling off of the Wooll.
- For the Posie, or running at the Nose.
- To prevent Sickness in Sheep,
- To prevent unseasonable Tireing.
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For the Biting of any Veno
Creatures - For Poyson, by licking up any infectious thing.
- For Pains in the Bowels.
- For the running Scab.
- For the Dropsie, or puffing up of the Skin.
- A further discourse on the Rot in Sheep very necessary.
- Observations and other Directions
- Of red Water, and its Remedy.
- To kill all sorts of Infects in the Sheep.
- For Lambs that are yean'd Sick.
- For the Leaf-sickness in the Sheep, or Lamb.
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For the great, or general Scab, or I
c . - A Remedy good for the Sickness of Sheep in general.
- Against violent Heats in Sheep.
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A gentle purge f
Sheep. -
A particular Receipt for making a
Ewe yean easily, and with out danger to her, or the Lamb. - A speedy way to increase their Milk.
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How to make a
Ewe love her own Lamb, or that of any otherEwe, and foster it. - For Canker or Ringworm.
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Profit
ble Advice to Shepherds, or those that have the Govern∣ment, and ordering of Sheep. - Concluding Instructions relating to the well ordering Sheep.
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What is to be observ'd in the Choice of
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A TREATISE OF SWINE, As to their
Choice Breeding, Feeding, Fatning; and the Cure of their sundry Dis∣eases, Sorrances, and other Griefs, and Ailes. - Swine very profitable, with their proper Food, to render them in feeding, large, and well shaped.
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A
rue discription of the Boar; andSow, for the procuring a healthy and large Breed. -
The most convenient time for the
Sow to take theBoar; how to be ordered in her going with Pig, and Farrowing,&c. - Proper Seasons for Gelding and Splaying; how ordered after, also in Stying, and in Relation to their Food.
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Rules for fatening
Swine in Champion Countries. - How to order, and fat them in woody Countries.
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tract to fatten Swine in Towns, and particularly for Bran, r Larding. -
How to order your
Pork, andBacon, for the well keeping of it, and its eating sweet, and savory. -
Diseases in
Swine, their Causes, S¦toms, anb proper Remedies for th Cure, also other Griefs, Ails, H &c. - For the Head-ach.
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For the Meas
es. - For the Swine-Pox.
- For the Ague or Feaver.
- For Swelling in the Neck, Throat, or any part.
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Stra
ns, Bruises, broken Claws, Bones out of Joynt, or ken, &c. an Excellent Plaister. -
For the Husking Cough, or C
ld. - For the Pain in the Belly.
- For the Flux.
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For the Plague, or any Disease in the Mil
. - For Diseases in the Eyes.
- How to know when a Swine is sick.
- For eating infectious Herbs that makes them sick
- For Rheums.
- For Blood-shot, or bloody specks in the Eyes.
- Imposthumes or Swellings about the Head or Throat.
- For Vomiting or casting up Food.
- Diseases in the Gall.
- For Lice, or Ticks.
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For
hirst. -
n excellent Oyntment for Fractures, Bruises, or broken Bones. - For Leanness, falling away, and Scurf.
- For the sleepy Evil.
- For the biting of a mad Dog.
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For a
Hog that has been lugged by a Dog. - For the Milt-pain.
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The Murrain,
s cure. -
The Quinsey in
Swine. - For the Spleen, an excellent Remedy.
- For pining and wasting.
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To prevent Pestilential Diseas
s. - Of immoderate Thrist.
- For Boiles, or Blains.
- For a Thorn or Stub in the Foot.
- To help the Scowring.
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For the violent Pain in the T
eth. -
The Frensie in
Swine. -
To remedy want of feeding, and defects in the Liver,
&c. -
For Le
ness, Mislike, Scurf, and Mainginess, a most appr ¦ved Remedy. - Of the Cattar in Swino.
- For Casting, Nauceating, or Vomiting.
- For dangerous Impostumes in any part, an approved Remedy.
- For the Murrain, another excellent Remedy.
- For Laxativeness.
- A peculiar way to prevent a Sow from the un-naturalness of eating or destroying her own Pigs.
- A present way to encrease Milk.
- A Cordial for a Sow, sick in, or after her Farrowing.
- For a Sow that is apt to cast her Pigs untimely.
- To know when a Sow is near her farrowing time.
- For blindness in Pigs newly farrowed.
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A TREATISE OF GOATS, THEIR
Nature and Kind, and the Advan∣tage accruing by feeding them. -
Goats, their Profitableness: How to make choice of good Breeders, with the marks to know them,
&c. - How to order them in their Covering; the proper Season; and how, after they have brought forth, to bring up the young; with the manner of feeding them.
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The Age of Goats, and many other things observable in the
as to their Knowledge, Housing, &c. - How their Housing ought to be, and care as much as possible, to keep them from Diseases.
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Diseases most incident to
Goats, their Cau∣ses, Symptoms, Prevention, and choice Receipts for their Cure,&c. - For the Feaver, or Ague.
- Another for the same.
- For the Dropsie.
- For the Murrain or Pestilence.
- For Pains in the Head.
- For Faintness, or Dizziness.
- For Scabs, or Scurf.
- For Leanness, or Consuming.
- For the Surfeit.
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For a Stub, thorn, or other hurt in the Feet,
&c. -
For Diseases, or Defects in the Eyes of
Goats. - For Defects in the Lungs.
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To preve
t breaking out, and she ding their Hair. -
A general Purge for the
Goats, &c. - To stench bleeding at the Nose.
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medy the Convulsions, or Cramps that occasion their Halt∣ g or Lameness. - For Pains in the Belly.
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Goats, their Profitableness: How to make choice of good Breeders, with the marks to know them,
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A TREATISE OF ASSES, As to thier
ature, Breeding, Feeding, Order∣ing, and Curing the sundry Dis∣eases incident to them. -
ations on the Ass, his Hardiness, and mane of -
Of Covering, and the proper time; their order in bringing forth,
&c. -
The ordering and weaning the As
-Colt; when to break him; Considerations of its Nature, and the housing required. -
How to order the Ass in snowey, or hard frosty Weather,
there is little to be got abroad. - Diseases particularly incident to them; and their Cures.
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A TREATISE OF Mules, or Moiles. THEIR
Generation, Breeding, Feeding, Di∣seases, &c.And the Cure. - Condsierations on the Generating Mules: Directions to chuse your Stallion and Mare for a large and good breed.
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How to order the Mare and Foal, and oblige the Mare that is backward, to consent to be covered,
&c. - Proper Housing for a Mule, and how to order him in riding or labouring.
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Diseases,
&c. Most incident toMule their Cause, Symptoms, and proper Re¦medy for their Cure.
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A TREATISE Of the various sorts of HOUNDS, And their proper use,
viz: Spannelsfor Land and Water, the House-Dog, and the Shepherd 'sMastiff, - The Grey-hound.
- The Blood-Hound.
- The Rach.
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The Sluth-
- The Gaze-Hound.
- The Tumbler.
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The
Tarrier orHarrier. - The Leviner, and Beagle.
- The Spannel.
- The Ban-Dog, or House-Dog.
- The Field Dog, or Shepherd's Mastiff.
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Some further Observations on Dogs, as to their Breeding
Choice. - Of Dieting, Coursing, and Airing a Grey-Hound, to fit him for a Match or Course.
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Diseases in Hounds, or other Dogs,
their proper Remedies or Cures, &c. - For the biteing of a mad Dog.
- For the Stone.
- For pains or other Diseases in the Ears.
- For the Mainge.
- For the Itch.
- For the Tetter.
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For the biting an of
Adder, Snake, &c. - For the Gauling.
- For sore Eyes.
- For the Worm in the Tongue and Body.
- To kill Lice, Fleas or Ticks
- For a Bruise.
- For Surbaiting.
- Of Madness in Dogs, and the Remedy.
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A TREATISE OF CONIES Wild and Tame. HOW TO
Order, Feed them, and Cure the Diseases. -
Of C
nies in gneneral, their Nature and Generation, & -
o chuse Conies for a profitable breed, to keep tame or in a close Warren. - How to order your Boxes to keep Conies in.
- Of feeding and preserving Conies.
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Of Conies in Warrens, their ordering, feeding,
&c. - Of Diseases in Conies, their Causes and Cure.
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Of C
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A TREATISE OF POULTRY: AND
How they are to be ordered in al circumstances, to the best Advan∣tage and Improvement. - The choice of a Cock for breed.
- The choice of a good Hen
- How a Hen must be ordered, as to her sitting.
- Chickens and their ordering.
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Of the Turkey-Cock and Hen, their Choice, Laying, Sitting, Breeding, Feeding the young ones,
&c. - Breeding, Feeding, Fattening, and other rules for ordering Geese and Goslings to advantage.
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Of the
Swan, her ordering, feeding and fatning. -
Of breeding, feeding and fatning
Ducks, wild and tame. - Of the Peacock, Pea-Hen and Chickens.
- The well ordering Plgeons and Dove-houses.
- To keep tame Pheasants, Patridges, Quates and other Birds.
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Diseases in Poultry and other Fowle, with suitable Remedies,
&c.
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THE EXPERIENCED Vermine Killer: OR,
A ready way to take and destroy all sorts of Vermine,that are hurt∣ful to Man, Beast, Fowl, or Fish. - A Sprine-Trap to take the Fox.
- Another way to take the Fox, by the Drag-hook.
- To take the Pole-Cat.
- To destroy Rats or Mice.
- To scare away Rats and Mice.
- To gather Rats and Mice, and destroy them.
- To make Rats and Mice blind.
- To make Weasles forsake a House.
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To cause Weasles to dye,
&c. - To gather Weasles.
- To destroy Moles.
- To rid a House, or any place of Pismires.
- Serpents, or Venomous Creatures, to destroy, or drive them away.
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To draw them together, and to handle them,
&c. - To destroy Caterpillars.
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To kill Worms or Snales in Walks,
&c. - To destroy Slugs, white and black, in Fields, Gardens, and other places.
- To destroy Erwigs, or Emets in Orchards, or Gardens.
- To destroy Frogs.
- To destroy Flies and Wasps.
- To destroy Bugs, and rid Houses of them.
- To destroy Fleas.
- To destroy Lice in the Head or Body.
- To destroy Crab-Lice.
- To take and destroy the Otter
- To take the Heron.
- To take the Buzard, Ring-Tail, Kite, or Hen-Hairer.
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An excellent way to take Sea-
yes.
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THE