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A60476	The experienc'd fowler: or, The gentleman, citizen, and country-man's pleasant and profitable recreation Containing, I. The true art of taking water and land fowl, with divers kinds of nets, lime-twigs lime-bushes, and how to make the best bird-lime. II. Directions for bat-fowling, lowbelling, tramelling, and driving fowl, how to find their haunts, and take them with springes, snares, &c. III. An exact method for using the fowling-piece at a true level, to shoot at the water, ground, bush or flying. ... By J. S Gent.	Smith, John, d. 1684.	1697 (1697)	Wing S4108C; ESTC R220081	40,290	164

substance called Bird-●●●● 〈◊〉 the which it will be proper 〈◊〉 give you directions to make before I proceed to the use of it About Mid summer or when the Sap is full bark well-grown Holly and having stripped off a considerable quantity put it into a Kettle and boil it in fair Water till the White and Gray Bark part and rise from the Green then take the Green and lay it on a heap on Tyled or Stone Floors in a moist place either in a low Vault or Cellar cover it over with Weeds and let it putrifie which at ten or twelve days end it will do turning into a slimy matter it will be convenient in this case to lay a Layer of ●●rn between each Layer of the Bark and when this is done beat it ●n a Mortar till nothing but slime remain so that it may 〈◊〉 wrought like Wax no part●●● the Bark being to be discer●●● then in a running Stream 〈◊〉 so well wash it that no mote or husks of any thing remain After this knead it into a Glazed Earthen Vessel with a Cover so close that the Air cannot come at it and there it will purge and fume up its Scurf which when it has done in fire or six days scum it off and do so till no more arise then shift it into another clean vessel and keep it for your use When you use it put a third part of Hogs-grease Goose-grease or any thin grease into it and stir it over a gentle fire in an earthen vessel till well Incorporated then take it off and continue stirring till it become cold This done take your Rods or what you intend to anoint with it warm them at the fire and strip them over with it twice or thrice so that it may lye of an equal evenness and not in clots often warming the Rods to make it spread and be the less to be perceived by the Fowl you design them to Intangle If you Lime Straws you may do them the same way but many together turning and opening them before the fire till they are well smeered that they may hold and intangle well In Cold Frosty Weather mix it with Oyl of Petrollum or Spike to prevent Friezing and to keep it clammy To make it usful in the Water put to it in the working with Grease sharp Vinegar about half a quarten to a pound a spoonful or two of Train-Oyl and a little Venice Turpentine and boil them gently over a Fire with continual stirring as before To take Water Fowl of divers kinds with Lime-Rods the manner of ordering and placing them to the best advantage c. To take Water-Fowl with Limed Twigs let the Twigs be strait and long and even as peeled Osiers c. light and slender pliable to play in the Wind greater or smaller according to the strength of the Fowl you lay them for smeer them as directed Go to the haunts an hour before day and if you can get it stake down for a Stale a live Fowl of the same kind you lay for with liberty to flutter at pleasure then prick lightly rods in rows about her a foot distance from one another and sloping bending their points to the Wind or some opposite the tops a foot or better from the Ground then if you have them place a Stale or two distant from the twigs and then conceal your self having a string fastened to each Stale to make it flutter as you see occasion which will make the Fowl in sight come to them swoop among them and be entangled by the Rods you must have a good Water-Dog to fetch them if they flutter away with your twigs and if you leave them and any of the twigs be missing send out to the Water Marsh or River Banks Rushes c. to scent the Fowl out where hid for if well taken she cannot disentangle or fly away This is the proper way for the Cloven-footed VVater-fowl as Heron Bitteron c. but for the Web-footed they are better placed in the Water than on the Land in shallow places the Limed part standing above the Water so thick that the Fowl may not easily creep between them fixing a Stale or two to decoy them thither let your Rods for this be green the better to deceive when one Haunt fails you must remove to another In Winter time when no Snow lies the VVild-Geese and Barnacles resort to the green VVheat to Grase here you must prick down large Rods in the Furrows as near the colour of the Earth as may be and chuse those Furrows where there is VVater you must in this case not be far off but concealed and presently run in when you see any rise for then some are intangled whose fluttering has scared the rest and if any flutter away send your Dog after or if there be any Fenny places or VVaters near you will go near to lose them Another way to take Land and Water Fowl viz. with Lime-strings Observe the Haunts and time as before then in the same manner prick your Limed Rods slanting in even rows so that the tops may be within a foot and a half of the ground over the haunts one Row a yard distant from another then have sticks with Forks to stand pretty high and cross sticks over them then Lime Strings as you did your Twigs placing them some rows higher than others waving and fasten the ends with a sliding Loop so that if the Fowl press upon them and they are strained they may loosen and lap about them and this way particularly you may furnish your self with store of Plover or any other Fowl that fly in broad Flocks swooping close by the ground at some distance before they light These strings being smeered with strong-Strong-water tried Lime made as I have directed for that purpose you may take Water-Fowl that are whole-footed or web-footed by hanging your Strings on Beams over the VVater for if they strain them in flying they will so entangle them that they will presently fall and these are best set in the darkest and most covert places so that not discerning them in their spreading to descend into the Water many of them may be taken at once you must have here a Dog or Boa● or else when they are taken you will be at a loss to recover them Snipes how to take with Water-Bird-lime c. also Larks These are best taken in hard Frosty Weather for then they are most to be found flocking to Springs where the Water is open for they cannot by reason of their Bills length and tenderness feed in hard places then take small Birch Twigs and Lime them stick them in great numbers all about the place where it is most likely they should light at a moderate distance then hide your self and when they light in such a manner with open spread VVings but few of them will miss your Twigs and if you see any of them taken do not presently run in for they will hop and seed

time after to the Beams of the Sun lest thereupon they become blind Diseases incident to Singing-Birds and their Cures Blindness radicated and confirmed cannot be remedied but at first when you perceive their Eyes begin to VVater you may remedy it by giving them Sugar dissolved in the juice of Beet every other day for four days and putting upright in the Cage a smooth Twig of a Fig-tree to rub their Eyes against which by instinct of Nature they will do For the Falling sickness if they escape the first fit cut their Claws to the quick and sprinkle them with sweet wine and let them not come in the heat of the Sun all the Summer If their Legs or VVings happen to be broken or splintered take away the Pearch and set their Meat and VVater in the bottom of the Cage and keep them where no Company comes to affright them and they will so order those parts with their Bills and by favouring them that they will naturally grow together again The Phthisick is a distemper that distends the Breast-Veins whilst their Flesh falls away and their Bellies swell as if Dropsical for this or any Swellings Inflammation Imposthume Hydropical distemper or Gout purge them with Beet as before directed For the Aphthae or small Ulcers in the Mouths of Birds boil Pompion-seeds in VVater and give them the VVater cool to drink for three or four days and when they begin to mend give them fine Loaf-sugar dissolved in their VVater The Pip is known by a hardness on the Tongue at the end seldom incident to Birds that feed on Seeds To remedy this open the Birds Bill and take off the hard film with a fine Needle from the tip of the Tongue rake the sides of the Bill and give him as in the foregoing Diseases Diseases in the Rump make the Bird Melancholly and abstain from Singing and when you observe this cut off the sharp part that lies on the top of the Rump give him cleansing things in his Meat and those in his VVater that are Cordial and Refreshing as the Juice of Rasberries Mulberries or the like For the Scowring or Flux of the Belly take away the Tail-feathers and the small ones about the Vent anoint it with Olive-Oil or Capons Grease and if they be hard-beaked Birds instead of Rape or Hemp-seed give them Pompion-seeds or Seeds of Red-Beets for two or three days but if soft-beaked the Yolks of Eggs hard boiled For Moulting or unseasonably Casting their Feathers sprinkle them twice or thrice a week with Wine not over-strong then set them in the Sun to dry and hang Greens over their Cage For Scowring give them Water wherein hot Iron has been quenched for Costiveness put a small Quill anointed with Oyl into the Birds Fundament once or twice a day for two days and those days give them the Juice of Beet To quicken them to Sing give them Linseed mingled with the Kernel of Pine-Apples small pounded put in their Water two or three shives of Saffron and hang agreeable Greens about their Cage For Hoarseness and loss of Voice give them the Decoction of Injubes and dried Figs for two or three days let them be decocted or boiled in fair spring-Spring-Water give it for two days and the next two or three days the Juice of Beet and if in Summer for the advantage of the Dew let them be all Night in the open Air. For the Asthma or Shortness of Breath drop two or three drops of Oxymel with a Feather into the Throat of the Bird mingle some of it wi●h his Water and drop white Sugar-Candy in it to dissolve For Tumours or Imposthumes in the Head Cauterise the place with a small Hot-Wyre anoint it with Olive-Oyl mingled with VVood-Ashes but before you do this give them some Juice of Beet in their VVater To preserve Birds of all kinds in health purge them once a Month with Pompion-seed the husk taken off Lettice Succory Beet Pimpernel or the Herb Mercury which last is proper to the Linnet to such Birds as are naturally enclined to dust themselves put Sand or Dust in their Cages at certain seasons but let it not long remain there for this dusting rids them of Lice and other Vermine incident to them and those that are of a hot nature and desire the VVater set them water to wash in within their Cage that they may do it voluntarily and uncompelled Birds fed with Paste and soft Meats must have their VVater and Meat set within the Cage fixed that they do not overthrow them in VVinter put to them broken Straw and in Summer sweet and cooling Gravel finely sifted for this latter by their picking up small Stones out of it opens Obstructions and prevents many Diseases the Birds that are abroad doing it by a natural instinct to prevent sickness so that they have always such stones in their Gizzards Keep their Cages neat and put their Plumes in order when you perceive them stragling or staring by their fluttering keep wild Birds dark at the first Diseases in Poultry and their Remedies For the Pip in opening the Bill you will find on the tip of the Tongue a thin Scale growing which hinders their feeding and makes them sicken by leanness and salling away this usually proceeds from their drinking foul water to remedy it pull off the Scale with a fine Needle or your Nail if it be long and sharp scrape the sides of the Bill to take off the scurf and then with Salt and Vinegar wash the Fowls mouth For the Flux this is occasioned by too much moistness of Meat for the cure of it boil Pease and Bran in Water wherein a few Slows have been boiled mash them press out the Water hard and give the Pease and Bran to the Fowl first in a Morning For the Rup this Disease causes a swelling on the Rump and if not taken care of in time will corrupt and affect the whole body it is perceived by the writhing or turning of the Feathers backward which as soon as you do pull them away and with a fine Pen● knife open the Sore and press it between your Thumb and Fingers and there will squeez● out a Coar then bathe the wound with Salt and Water and in a few times doing it wil● be well For Li●e these mainly afflict Poultry and much impoverish them for a remed● therefore beat Pepper an● boil it in Water and with th● Water when warm wash the● all over For any stoppage in the Belly c. anoint a quill with Oyl of Almonds or Olive Oyl thrust it a first and second day up their Vents and give them Linseed among their Meat For defects in the Eyes take two or three Leaves of Ground-Ivy chew it in your Mouth then squeeze out the Juice and anoint the sore Eyes with it mixed with fasting-spittle For any Stinging with Nettles or Venemous Creatures mix the Juice of Rue and Butter till you make them into an Oyntment and anoint For the stopping

in the Belly This stoppage in Poultry is contrary to the Flux so that they cannot move therefore anoint the Vent and give them small bits of Bread or Corn steeped in Man's Urine For the Crow-trodden If your Hen be trodden with a Crow or Rook as often they are you will know it by the staring up of her Feathers and the hanging of her Wings give her for this the Juice of Garlick Butter and the Juice of Lawrel-leaves in little Pills though if she be fat the best way is to put her to the Spit or Pot for this misfortune is rarely cured that is so that the Hen may thrive afterwards Divers useful Experiments relating to Poultry For a Hen that Crows This sometimes happens though it is unnatural therefore to remedy it pull her Wings and give her to eat either Barley scorched or small Wheat and for several days keep her close from other Poultry To make a Hen Lay soon and fast To do this feed her often with Toasts taken out of Ale or strong Beer boil Barley and Spelted-Fitches and give them to her and it will cause her to Lay well in a little time To keep a Hen from Sitting If for the sake of Laying or Fattening her you are not desirous to have your Hen Sit bathe her in cold water and run a small Feather through her Nose To prevent a Hens eating her Eggs. If your Hen be subject to eat her Eggs make a piece of Chalk in the likeness of an Egg lay this in her Nest and when she has pecked at it till tired and lost her labour she will for the future avoid it as concluding it fruitless To keep a Hen from growing too Fat Too much Fatness spoils their Laying or produces Eggs without Shells or else very small ones to remedy this then to keep them Lean or in good Plight for Laying mix their Meat and Water with the Powder of Tile sheards or Chalk and give them Tares twice or thrice a week and your design will be answered as well as can be desired How to make a Capon Lead and Brood Chickens Let him be lusty that he may be the better able to defend them against the Kite then shut him up in some close place with them for some time and if he refuse to brood them sting his Breast and Rump with Nettles and then their running under him taking the smart away with their heat will Inure him to it so that being let abroad he will be familiar with them The Speediest way to Fatten Poultry To Feed and Cram Capons Fat them c. TAke Farley-meal reasonably sifted mix it with New Milk mould it well make it into stiff dough and make it into proportionable Crams big in the middle and small at both ends so that it may slip into the Craw without straining wet them in warm Milk and give them a full Gorge Morning Noon and Night and in a fortnight or three weeks he will be as Fat as need be desired To Feed and Fatten Turkeys and Geese To Fatten this sort of Fowl sod Barly or Oats for the first fortnight and for another fortnight Cram them as the Capon To Fatten Geese especially those that are five or six months old when they have been in the Stubble-fields during the time of Harvest and got good flesh then chuse out such as you wou'd feed and put them into several close and dark Pens feed them thrice a day with Oats and Spelted Beans and let their Water be well dusted with Barly-meal it standing always near them and by this means they will be very sat in three weeks As for Green Geese after they are a month or six weeks old boil Shag-oats and feed them with that Seed plentifully Morning Noon and Night and with good store of Milk or Milk mixed with Water To Feed and Fatten Hens Pullets and Cocks Give them sodden Barly and Bran mixed with the Water wherein they were boiled keep them close Cooped up let them have plenty of this for a sort-night with Water and they will be well fleshed and fatted To Cram Chickens take coarse Wheat-meal mix it with Milk and make it into a Paste and let it be rowled up made into Crams suitable big enough in the middle to swallow and taper at both ends and strow Parsley and other Greens about the Coop that they may pick it up also to all the Poultry put a little fine sweet Gravel into their Coop in a Dish by it self or in their Water To Fatten Duck● Wild or Tame Pull out the two Fore-quills and Tail-quills so that they cannot fly high put them in a walled or well fenced place where there are Osiers Reeds or Sedges in or by the side of the Pond or Water that they may delight in and twice a day that is Morning and Evening give them scalded Bran Oats and Fetches the Guts of Fowl cut short pieces of Liver Lights or the like Swans their Feeding Feed these in all sorts as directed for Geese though they will take up a longer time to Fatten as seven or eight weeks either Coop them up or let them walk in some private Court but if you are for Fattening them in haste let it be in a Pond well fenced in where they may land at pleasure and place two Troughs one full of water and Barly and the other of old dried Mault and by this means keeping themselves clean they will thrive much the better To Fatten Pigeons Partridges Pheasants c. As for Pigeons let them have Pease Tares and store of clean Water and in the Rooms where they are have a Salt-pot viz. Bay salt mixed with Coriander and Fenel-seeds baked for them to pick at or that which is gathered from Salt-Petre is the best give them fine sifted Gravel or Sand and they will soon grow sat For the Partridge and Pheasant also the Quail feed the two first in one room where you may have little Boxes that they may at pleasure hide themselves and in the midst of their room if there be any number of them have three Wheat-sheaves one with its Ears downwards and two with theirs upwards also near them set small vessels of VVater that pecking out the Corn they may drink at pleasure and so they will grow fat As for the Quails feed them in long slat shallow Boxes each box holding a dozen or two of them the foremost sides being set with Pins so thick that they may only put out their heads then before that open side place a Trough of small Chilter-wheat and another with VVater and so in a fortnight or three weeks you will have them exceeding fat Godwits Knots Grey Plover or Curlews To keep these alive feed and fatten them get the finest Chilter-wheat give it them with VVater Morning Noon and Night but for speedy fatting them take fine VVheat-meal mix it with Milk and make it up into little C●ams sprinkle into it small grains of Chilter-wheat till the grains are

your Nets about two hours before their usual time of coming then at about two or three fathom beyond the Net in a direct line from the Stakes fasten one end of the Cord that the upper part of the Net is extended to or upon whilst the other end you hold in your hand being about ten or twelve fathom long that when the Game approaches within the compass of your Net on a swift or sudden pull you may easily cast it over ' em The Net must be flat on the ground and the better to prevent its being discerned cover it lightly over with short Grass or Sedge then make a hiding-place for your self of Fern Reeds Flags or such as the place affords that the Fowl seeing such-like things elsewhere about them may be the more familiar with it and approach the bolder As for your Stale if you have any that is a tame one or one artificially made of the kind you mostly Net for it is most proper to place it within the verge of the Net for the better encrease of your Sport And this you may continue till the Sun is risen about an hour or some-longer but not much for then their feeding in those places is over till a little before Sun-set again If your Net design'd for great Fowl be very large you cannot conveniently have a pair of Draw-nets unless some one help you for one will be as much as you can manage and conveniently throw over the Fowl But for the smaller sort a pair of Draw-nets may be proper enough and well managed in manner and form as you see in the following Figure To take small Water-fowl with folding Day-nets c. This Net must be staked athwart the River or Pond and the bottom plummed so that it may sink about six Inches under water and the upper part by straining be slantwise against the Current where there is one and about two foot above the Water and fasten the String that guides the upper part of the Net to a small yielding Twig the better for its giving way when the Fowl strikes against the Net so that she may the more intangle You may have several of these Nets placed at a convenient distance on a River and if the Fowl fall near them you cannot miss of Game And where the Fowl lie remote from your Nets you may drive or scare them to that place by shooting or making a noise with any loud Instrument that may fray them from those Marshes or Pools to the River These are the properest ways by Nets to take them though there are many more which in their proper places I shall have occasion to speak of and lay down suitable Rules and Directions to answer your desire Land-fowl their Haunts and how to take them with Nets LAnd-fowl are not so shy as Water-fowl as oftener seeing Men yet are they cunning enough to avoid danger Those that are properly termed Land-fowl and worth taking are found in Woods Copices Heaths Fields c. where they have their several Haunts according to their Nature or the Season of the Year and they principally are Pheasants Partridges Rails Quails Pouts Heath-cocks Wood-Pidgeons Black-birds Field-fares Stares Thrushes Larks Puffins Wheatears and the like and those or these or other sorts that gather in Flights may be taken in the day-time with Nets In ordering this Affair you must consider what Food they most delight in for it will be proper to bait the place as well to decoy them into the compass and danger of your Net by a Stale or Bird of the kind you mostly lay in for The Mashes of your Nets must be proportionable to the Fowl that is not big enough for them to escape nor so little that there will be difficulty in their intangling and about an inch or a little more in the square will do Let the Net be about three fathom in length and one in depth verged on either side with a sufficient Cord and the Net be in all things as the figure pag. 9. describes These Nets must be of a very exact size and the best time for this Sport is from August to November tho' in an open Winter it may be indifferently us'd till the middle of February or the time the Birds begin to couple You must in this case be an early riser and have your Nets placed before they are well come abroad from their night roosting and this must be somewhat before the Sun is up The most successful places are on short Barley-stubble green Lays or even Meadows that are dry also in Champion ground far from any Villages or resort of People and where the ground proves uneven you must use your endeavour to reduce it to an evenness that the Nets sinking into the short grass or stubble and part of it coming thro the Mashes it may appear as hid and very little to be discerned and likewise on plain ground the Nets in drawing will close so even that being covered the Birds may not flicker or creep through them The Nets thus placed slaked and corded as has been directed that at the smart and swift motion they may fly up and close even there remain Directions to allure the Birds to you and to do this stick Poles in the ground if the place otherwise affords not advantage that by their playing and noise they draw the Birds to wonder 〈◊〉 them These Giggs are to 〈◊〉 made of long Goose-feathers 〈◊〉 manner like a Shuttle-cock ●unning with little Turnels of Wood in flat and broad Swans Quills round like a little hoop so that long Strings being fastned to the Pole they will with the least breath of Wind turn and flicker in the Air the Strangeness of which draws the Birds to gaze as thinking it some wonderful Creature of the Airy kind The next thing to be done is to place your Stale to do this drive a small Stake into the ground having a Mortice on the top of it or very near and into this Mortice put a piece of slender Wood about two foot long fasten it so in the Mortice that with a String you may move it up and down at pleasure and tie to it a small Line which running through a ho● in the Stake and coming 〈◊〉 your hand at the distance yo● sit you may by it as often 〈◊〉 you pull mount the Stick from the ground On this Stick towards thr end fasten your Stale-Bird as live Lark or other suitable t● what Birds you see flocking up and down so that by the motion of the Stick her flickerin will make her appear as if she was flying about to feed And indeed you must have Seeds Corn or Chaff scattered near about and within the compass of your Net by which mean● they will be allured and with out much difficulty taken You need not always stay for their alighting on the ground but if they play about and swoop near it draw up smartly and you will not fail to cover some 〈◊〉 them

fat thick and hard on the Belly at thin and soft of lean if limber footed new if dry-footed stale and to know a true Wild-Duck observe it has a small reddish foot a Tame Duck as to the newness and staleness is the same but has a thicker foot blackish and somewhat enclining to yellow if scalded try the Breast as for Chickens in Water Teal if fat will feel hard and thick on the Belly but thin and soft denotes leanness limber-footed new dry-footed Stale and by this Rule chuse the Nun Water Widgeon Land Widgeon Pantail Whever Stone Curlew Curlew Stent Moor-hen Di-dappers Coots and other Water-fowl and indeed by these Rules all other Fowl fit for the Table that so you may learn easily to be a good Marketer and not be imposed on to part with your Money or when you come home laughed at for your little skill Four-footed Creatures usually sold at the Poulterers to know whether young or old new or stale The Coney or Rabbit if new killed will be stiff but if stale she 'll have a kind of slime upon her and be very limber and if a right Coney or Rabbit it will have a small knot or knob a little above the joint on the out-side the fore-foot A Hare if new killed will be white especially if clean killed without shot or bruises and very stiff but if stale killed limber and the flesh of her will have black upon it The Leveret or young Hare when new killed will be stiff and whitish but if stale killed limber and of a duskey colour and on the fore-leg of it near the foot if it be a true Leveret it will have a small bone if not a knob and if this upon search with stroking down be wanting she is no Leveret but a Hare and consequently may be old And thus have I shewed you all the mystery of a Poulterer as to any thing of this kind that is material to be known as to buying and selling the Prizes vary and are so uncertain that I cannot but reasonably expect to be accused of solly if I should undertake to give directions of that nature but in the general look out sharp and purchase that which is good at an honest Market rate How to destroy Vermin or such offensive Creatures as are destructive to Fish Fowl Cattel c. This must needs be acceptable to most seeing a great many suffer much damage this way and are at a loss how to prevent it therefore though at first sight it may appear to be some digression from the work I have nevertheless chosen to place it at the latter end of it in such directions as seldom have failed the expectations of those that have experienced them to their great advantage in their Houses Barns and Fields The Compleat Vermin-killer shewing a Ready way to destroy all sorts of Vermin To destroy Mice and Rats BOIL wild Cucumbers in a Pint of Water with as much Colloquintida till the Water is almost consumed then take Oat-flower and with what remains make a Paste and it will when the Rats or Mice eat it certainly destroy them Or take Pot Ashes and scatter them in the holes where the Rats and Mice run and it will kill them or make them utterly forsake their haunts and the House Or Take Helebore Leaves mix them with Wheat-flower make it into a Paste with Live Honey lay it in the holes or where the Mice and Rats usually come and they will eat and dye soon after Or take very small filings of Iron or Steel and Hemlock-seed work them up with Wheat-flower into a dough rowl it up in little Pellets and toss it up and down where their haunts are and when it s eaten it destroys them To scare away Mice and Rats Take the B●ains of a Weasle and mix them with Hogs-suet anoint the places with it where they can most conveniently come in and the scent of it will affright them back again Or take wild Marjoram burn it on a Chafing-dish of Coals in all the rooms and whilst the scent lasts they will not appear and if often continued they will utterly abandon the place Or take a Rat or Mouses head take off the skin and hang it up where they usually come and the sight of it will so terrifie them that they will fly the place To gather Rats and Mice together Take a Copper Brass or large Earthen Pot put it into oyldregs till it is about half full place it in a convenient place as near as you can in the middle of the house then strew about it Pot Ashes and when the Mice scent it they will come flocking and running on the Ashes it will so stupifie them that you may come in upon them and destroy them at pleasure To make Rats and Mice blind Beat Tythimal to pouder sift it finely mix it with an equal quantity of VVheat-flower add as much Metheglin as will make it into a stiff Paste lay it in small pieces in their haunts and in eating of it it will make them them blind To kill Weasles Take VVheat-flower and Sal-Armoniack make them into a Paste with Honey and throw it in small parcels in such places where the VVeasles come and they greedily eating it it will prove their Bane To gather Weasles Take a Lizard's Gut beat it in half a pint of fair Spring-water and pour it on the ground in the places of their haunts and the scent of it will gather them To drive away Weasles Take a living Hedge VVeasle cut his Tail short and it being a Hee his Stones out turn him loose and the very sight of him will fright all that come near him to seek habitations elsewhere To prevent their sucking Eggs. Place Rue about the Nests and places where your Poultry resort to Lay and they will not come near them To kill Moles These Underminers are great spoilers of Gardens and Fields to destroy them take a Jug or Pot that a has a narrow Neck put Cedar-wood Bees-wax Rosin and Brimstone into it all very small stop the Mole-holes that are near with Earth but once cast out and into the open hole put the Neck of the Jug after the combustible matter is well fired and the Air in the Earth will draw it so vehemently that it will stifle all the Moles in that place Or bruise white Hellebor stamped very small and mixed with Wheat-flower mix them with the White of an Egg Milk and Wine lay little bits of it well moulded into Cakes before the holes and by their eating it it will destroy them Garlick and Onions will make them leave their holes that you may pursue and destroy them in the open Fields To gather Moles together To do this put a live Mole into an Earthen-Pot and stop it close in the Pot then put a gentle fire under it near the haunts of the Moles and when she feels the heat she will cry which will draw all the Moles in hearing about her that you may

easily destroy them To drive Snakes or Adders out of any Out-houses Gardens or Ground Burn VVall-wort and scatter Rue and VVorm-wood and the scent of these will drive them away as also Evets and other Ven●mous Creatures Or take the roots of Centory and lay it in the place where they come and they will depart The smoak of burnt Soles of Shoes will drive them away To kill Snakes or Adders Take the largest Radishes pare them small and sprinkle them near their haunts and eating of them they will dye If you would handle Snakes without danger wash your hands in the Juice of Raddish and they will not bite you To gather them to one place take a handful of Onions and about ten River Crab-fish pound these together and this mixture laid near their haunts will gather them together so that you may destroy them To destroy the Pole-cat and Fox This is a great destroyer of Poultry and young Rabits therefore to be even with him mark the holes he enters at or his pads or haunts and there set a strong VVire Snare with a running noose and a deep hole dug in the ground under it that putting his head in upon the level the Snare giving forward he may throw his Body into the hole and not reaching the ground with his feet be fairly hanged this way the 〈◊〉 may be taken though his ●●●ning will prevent the 〈…〉 be not suddenly 〈…〉 therefore a Steel 〈…〉 ●aited with a 〈…〉 soonest takes him 〈…〉 likeliest hole of his 〈◊〉 and covered with 〈◊〉 or short broken Straw that ●●izing the first Prey●h ●ights on with his pulling the Bridge may give way and the two teethflyers clasping together catch him fast by the Neck or Legs These Traps will take Kites Hen-hariers Ring-tails or Buzzards that haunt your Chickens or young Rabbits destroying many of them Pismires to destroy Take wild Cucumber roots burn them where the Pismires or Ants are and the scent of it will kill them to preserve Plants from these Insects anoint the bottom of the Trees with Lupins beaten small in the dregs of Oyl and they will not come near it As for Sugar or Sweat-meat Boxes to keep them from it anoint them with Rubica To kill Slugs or Snails Strew the places of their haunts with slacked Lime or Pot-Ashes and it will destroy them and to preserve Corn or other Grain from being eaten in the Ground by Vermin mix Sea-Coal Ashes or Soot with your Seed and they will not touch it To destroy Earwigs Lay dryed Kexes at the bottom of the Trees or in any place where they haunt and they will creep into them then burn them To destroy Catterpillars Make little fires in the grounds where they are of wet Hay or Straw sprinkle on them Brimstone Pitch and Rosin and place them so that the smoak may go over the ground and among the Trees by the driving of the Wind and it will kill them To destroy Bugs Anoint the Bedsteads or places of their most resort with Oyl of Turpentine for want of this with Soap-Lees or strong Vinegar for want of these take the Juice of Hemlock and Hen-bane Burn Storax and Brimstone in the room on a Chafing-dish the place shut as close as may be and to prevent Suffocating your self you may retire To destroy Fleas and Lice Take the Roots of Wild Cucumbers and Worm-wood and boil them in Pickle sprinkle the Water they are boiled in in the Room and it will kill the Fleas to drive them from Beds take Arsmart or Harts-tongue a Herb so called with a long Leaf growing in most Ditches lay it between the Mat or Sacking and the Bed and the scent will drive them away To kill Lice take Hogs-lard Quick-silver and the Juice of Sage beat them together into an Oyntment and anoint the body and the Lice if any are in your Cloaths will dye and no stock renew in a long time To destroy Nits Head-lice Crab-lice c. For the two first take Sandarach Gum or red Orpiment and Salt-Peter of each a dram and if Lice two drams mix these well together with Oyl Olive and Vinegar and by anointing the Head or the Cap you put on at Night it will destroy them e're Morning For the last take the Skin and Coar out of a Roasted Apple bruise it well in a Mortar with a little Quick-silver and powder of Sulphur make it into a kind of a Poultis or Oyntment and apply to the grieved part To destroy Flies Take Hellebor a Herb so called bruise it steep it in new Milk mix with Orpiment and sprinkle the rooms where any Swarms of Flies come and they will either avoid the place or dye away The Supplement To take young Hawks IF you look for Hawks it must be in very high Woods their Nests being always in the oftiest Oaks but the best way to take them is when they have just left their Nests yet upon occasion return to it again is not daring to trust too much to the VVing their haunts you may observe by their Mutings then creep close under the Trees and take notice of their ways coming in or going from the Nest among the thickest Trees or Boughs for they usually take but one direct way when they come any thing near the Nest VVhen you have done this watch the old Hawks going out to provide Provision for them and in her absence climb up softly and having a Net or Nets made of Green Thred to be the less discernable place it between the Arms of the Trees they usually pass through with drawing strings fastened to some branches so that when they unadvisedly enter into the Cod and flutter their pushing forward may draw the strings and take them Thus you may take young Crows Pyes Rooks on the like that build in VVoods as soon as flown To take the Fox with a Hook To do this have a large Fish hook or two fasten them to convenient place where he haunts your Poultry at the en● of strong Lines bait them wit● 〈◊〉 piece of a dead Chicken or other Raw flesh so that the Hooks may hang a little out of his reach and he cannot get the Bait without leaping at it then shut up your Poultry that he can meet readily with no other Prey then scenting this he will greedily leap at it and hanging fast to draw it off the Hook will fasten in his Jaws and hold him above the ground that he may easily be taken And thus Reader I hope I have given you ample satisfaction in these matters not doubting your approbation of what I have written for your pleasure and profit FINIS THere is lately published The True Art of Angling Or The Best and Speediest way of Taking all sorts of Fresh-Water Fish with the Worm Fly Paste and other Baits in their proper seasons how to know the Haunts of Fish and Angle for them in all Waters and Weathers at the Top Middle and Bottom Baiting of the Ground Night Baits Oyls and Oyntments Baits Natural and Artificial The several ways of Angling To make Oyl of Asper and many rare Secrets never before made publick containing the whole Body of Angling and Mystery of a Compleat Angler By J. S. Gent. A Brother of the Angle Printed for Geo. Conyers at the Golden Ring and John Sprint at the Bell in Little Britain Price ●d