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.

The ordering and weaning the As••-Colt; when to break him; Considerations of its Nature, and the housing required.

A. for the ordering the Ass-Colt when cast, suffer it the first year to run with the Dam; and the next, tye him up gently with her, only in the night time: The third is a si•• ••eason to break him, and render him tractable for labour, which will not be very difficult to do, by reason of his ••••ate dulness and easiness to be handled. There is in this Creature a great love towards her young; for if it be in danger, and cry out for help, she will not stick, if possible, to run through a circling fire to it. But above all things, they dread the Water, not willingly ••a••eing to dip the tips of their Hooss in it; and indeed the much wetting their Hooss in travel, or wet grounds, is the cause of most of their Distempers; neither, unless exceeding dry, will the Ass, of her own accord, willingly drink in any strange Water; and when they drink, they do it so man∣nerly, as if they were afraid to touch it with their Lips. Some, who have been curious to search into the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of ••t, affirm, that seeing the shaddow of the•••• goodly large ••ars in th•• Water, in which they take great Pride, they

are offended, and suddenly draw back, as ••earing they •• wetted.

They delight to lodge in wide Rooms, and by reas•••• of the melancholly guality that abounds in them, they among all Creatures, if any thing at all, are the least de∣lighted in Musick; and for the same reason ••••oubled •••• fearful dreams, which make them not only groan •• make piteous noise in their sleep, but also, if they •• near any hard thing, to beat their Feet and Heads, w•••• by they much hurt and bruise themselves; but much m•• those of their kind, that lye near them.