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 Field Dog, or Shepherd's Mastiff.

This Dog is so necessary to those that keep Flocks, that he ••s as it were, the right hand of their business in fetching up, and turning the Sheep when they go astray, or attempt to pass their bounds into forbidden Pastures, keeping about them as a guard to prevent the attempts of Beasts of prey, or of such Dogs as come in the Night-time to worrey and suck their blood.

This Dog must be rather long than thick, that may give him the greater volacity in the pursuit; yet he must be strong, the better to deal with the Enemies to the Sheep, when they are restif, and not easie to be ruled. Their great Feet and Paw, like a Lyon, when very young, is a certain sign they will prove well; a briadled, or yellowish Colour is accounted the best; give these kind of Dogs their Food in time, to sleep in the day, that they may be most vigilent in the Night, when dan∣ge•• requires their attendance: When they are about a Month old, cut their Tails; but beware they seed not on the Carcass of any dead Sheep, lest it inure them to worrey the living ones.