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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94232	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. S., Gent.	1697 (1697)	Wing S7; ESTC R2532	103,960	176

and feed Plover Widgeon Sheldrake and others Of the Peacock Pea-Hen and Chickens The Peacock and Pea-Hen have been formerly held for Dainties but now are kept more for show than advantage yet the Pea-Chickens fatted are as good as Partridge and where you keep them let the place be clean and neat for they much delight in it and let there be no pysonous Seeds Berries or Insects in their walks When the Hen lays she seeks the covertest place to ●ide them from the Cock for he will else break her Eggs ●or does she bring them to him till the Turft of Feathers on their Craw begins to appear lest he should kill them ●ut then he is sufficiently in love with them the Chickens are very tender and must be kept out of the cold they will feed and thrive upon any thing that is reasonable and grow fat with Corn and crumbs of Bread without coo●ing or penning up or taking of much care of as being careful of themselves The well ordering Plgeons and Dove-houses Pigeons are another Commodity gainful to the owners but injurious to the Neighbours by devouring abundance of Corn they are great breeders and put those that keep them to little charge for by flying abroad they procure their own meat they bring two at a time once a Month if they be well fed and well paired they will not of themselves divide The Cock is not only loving to the Hen but to the young ones and will sit contentedly one the Eggs whilst she goes off to feed he will also feed the young with as much diligence as the Hen P●as and Tares they much delight in and to keep them to your house set a salt Pot up where they may peck at it that is Bay-salt bruised small with Anni-seeds Cummin-feeds Ca●raway-feed well mingled with it baked in an Oven in an earthen Pot like a Sugar-loaf for at this they take great delight to peck and be careful to make the Wires and Holes where the young are that the Pigeons may enter but not Birds of pray for though the Owl seems large in the Feathers she will slip in at a little hole and destroy them To keep tame Pheasants Patridges Quates and other Birds These are accounted Dainties and the ordeing them may not be amiss to be incerted among Poultry To keep these you must have a large room with man little Boxes so that they may play run and hide themselves at pleasure in the middle set Wheat-sheaves 〈◊〉 them to peck at and little shallow pans of water 〈◊〉 when they have pecked the Corn they may drink at th● pleasure give them boyled Malt and Rice and if y● would fat them keep them up in their Boxes with li●● Wires before them give them Chilter-Wheat in Troug● before them as also water and in a Fo●tnight they w●● answer your Expectation And thus you may keep a● fatten Black-Birds Feldefares God-wits Knots Grey plover Curlew Thrush and all sorts of Birds with ● little variation of their feed as you see them inclined ●● delight in one feed more than another Also Herons Gulls Bitterns and Pevits but these latter must mostly be fed with Flesh Worms and Fis● cut small and have store of water Diseases in Poultry and other Fowle with suitable Remedies c. Crow-Trod●en IF a Hen be Crow-trodden as many times she is it is known by the staring of her Feathers and the duln●●s of her Eyes and hanging of her Wings for this stamp the blades of Onyons with Butter and Bay-salt and give it her For any Stinging When you perceive this by their Lowring and Swelling give them Rue and Butter stamped together and made up in o little Pellets For the Pip. This is known by a white scale on the tip of the Tongue take it off with a sharp Needle or other Instrument and ●ub the Tongue with Salt and Vinegar For the Flux Too much moist meat occasions this for this boyl Sloes in their water and give them Peas Barley and scalded Fran. For the Roup This is a swelling on the Rump which will corrupt the whole body if not remedyed in time to do it pull off the Feathers about the Sore open it and squeeze out the Corruption wash the place with Salt and water and it will be well For stopage in the Belly This binding is removed by thrusting a Quill diped in Hogs-grease up their vents and giving them bits of bread or Corn steeped in Mans Urine To kill Lice Take the siftings of Pepper mix it with warm water ●nd wash them with it and it will kill the Lice For sore Eyes For sore Eyes or other Diseases in the Eyes take the Juice of ground Ivy and Pimpernel wash them with it and they in a few times doing will be well To prevent a Hens Crowing Pull her Wings and a few Feathers of her Crown and Neck then give her parched Wheat or Barly and keep her for some time from other Poultry To prevent a Hens eating her Eggs. Lay for the prevention of this vice an Egg of Allablaster or Chalk in her Nest and when she picks at it she will weary her self and make her Bill so sore that for the future she will be discouraged from medling with the Eggs. To make a Hen lay well This may be done by feeding as giving her toasted Bread sopped in Ale or Beer Barly boyled Spelt-Fitches and the like but not too much lest she grow over-fat and that bind her for laying at all To prevent a Hens sitting Hold her in a Pan of cold water set in her Nest after that run a little Feather through her Nose and the desire of fitting will be quite taken from her For a Hen over fat If your Hen be over fat that it hinders her laying beat a Tilesheard into Powder mix it with scalded Bran and give it the Hen and she will be soon reduced to a moderate flesheyness These are all the noted Diseases incident to Poultry and for want of knowing them and their Remedies many thousands have been lost therefore I have set them down for the use of the good House-wife that plenty and profit may by industry increase THE EXPERIENCED Vermine Killer OR A ready way to take and destroy all sorts of Vermine that are hurtful to Man Beast Fowl or Fish A Sprine-Trap to take the Fox TAKE a sti●f Pole so that it may be pliable fix the great end fast in the Ground and tye a line to the end of the upper part with a loop made fast on with Sooe-makers wax and to this Line fasten a small short stick with a nick in its lower end made thin on the upper side where the Pole is bound down with it into another stick strongly fastned in the Ground with a nick likewise under then joyn both these sticks together as slightly as they will hold the strong bending down of the Pole and then open the end of the Line in a running Nooze and place it in the Foxes ●aunts