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.

How to order the Ass in snowey, or hard frosty Weather, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 there is little to be got abroad.

In the Winter Season, if the Snow be on the gr〈…〉〈…〉 especially, you must feed him in the House, with Ch〈…〉〈…〉 sweet Pease-Straw, and Hay chopped short; hard Bid•• or chipings of coarse Bread beaten small; and to con•••• and keep them in heart, fit for service, give them •• and then Bran in sweet Whey, skim Milk, or Wort; •• it must be very thick, or, for the reason before menti〈…〉〈…〉 he will hardly fish for it, though never so hungry. T•• care to let them stand dry, and if their Hoofs grow •• shape, pare, them, and bring thim into a fashionable for that they may grow in thickness; in many places wh•• they labour much, or go on stony ground, they •• shooed; but this must be done lightly, and within co••¦pass, that they interfeer not, to lame them in their tr••∣ing.