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.

A peculiar way to prevent a Sow from the un-naturalness of eating or destroying her own Pigs.

Some Sows being used much to Carrion, and now and then to the snaping up of live Poultry will, if they be not well fed and looked to, un-naturally eat their own Pigs; and this it seems is not new to these voraciousCrea∣tures for we find the antient Saxons looked on it so bar∣barous and un-natural, they made a Law, That any Sow which eat her own Pigs, should he burnt alive.

This destroying or eating their Pigs as soon as far∣rowel, springs from an un-natural greediness in them; whic•• to remedy, you must watch her when she sarrow∣eth; and if she be accustomed to such Tricks, take away the Pigs is they fall; then take the Rickling or u••derling Pig, and wash it all over with the Juyce of Stone, a He•••• so ca••led and put it again; to the Sow, and if she devour it, it will make her cast and vomit extreamly, and be so sick, that the pain and disorder she finds in it, will de∣ter her from doing the like again: But of all the cures for such in un-natural Beast, is to fat and kill her, for there are bat few Sows that are guilty of this trick.