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 your Boxes to keep Conies in.

If you intend to have good success in your•• tame 〈◊〉〈◊〉 you must have things according to accomodate them, th•• they may breed and thrive; and particularly, Boxes •••• of good Wainscot in thin Boards, about two Foot squa•• and one Foot high; and these squares divided into t•••• Rooms, the greater Rooth having open Windows of W•••• through which the Conie may feed at pleasure; and the lesser totally darkened, in which she may lodge, and ••••¦dle; and before them a Trough, to put in the food, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 other necessaries; and these Boxes you may set one upo•• another, for divers stories, where there is not larg•• conveniencies; keeping the Buck Conies by themselv•• and your Does seperate, unless those that have not b•• and with such it is convenient you let a Buck lodge: A•• when your Does kindles one Nest, and then proceed•••• kindle another, take the first from her, and put them to••••¦ther in several Boxes, among the Rabits of suitable a•• but there let them have sufficient room, for if they •• pestered, or as it were stifled up, you must not expect them to thrive.