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.

For pining and wasting.

Th••s is perceived by his want of Appetite, in forsaking ••his Meat; and sometimes, when you bring him to his Meat, and he endeavours to feed, he instantly starts back, and falls down as dead: This many foolish People con∣clude to proceed from Witchcraft, when, indeed, it is •• natural Distemper.

To remedy this, shut up your Swine a whole day with∣out Meat, or Water; the next day give them Water to drink, wherein the Roots of wild Cucumbers have been stamp••d, and strain'd, and let him fast an hour after; then give ••••an boyled thick in Water, and so do two or three days, and the Cure will be wrought; for the Cucumbers will make him Vomit, and cleanse his Stomack, sitting

him for a good Appetite; and thereupon his Flesh will be recovered, if you give him hard Beans that have been steeped in Bri••e.