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The countrymans friend, and no circumventing mountebanck : But a rare method of chyrurgery and physick, teaching the country people excellent cures, the likewas [sic] never laid open in any age before. Besides here are four arts, three, of them concerning horses, and the fourth an art to keep a field of corn from any manner of fowles, that devour grain, this art is only by anointing a few crow feathers, for neither pidgeon, sparrow, rook nor crow will endure the field where they stick. By Abraham Miles.
Miles, AbrahamDate: 1662
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Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.Date: 1822- Books
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The compleat husbandman and gentleman's recreation : or, the whole art of husbandry; containing I. Directions to cure all diseases in horses, which are almost 300, with 12 medicines only not of 12d cost. Also to cure oxen. kine. bulls. calves. ... II. Directions to improve land. ... III. To brew pale ale and beer, ... IV. Of planting and raising trees for timber and fruit, ... V. To destroy moles, foxes and other vermin. VI. To heal all diseases in men or women with chew'd white bread. ... VII. Directions in angling. fowling. hawking. hunting. ringing, &c. By G. Markham gent.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: [1695]