The %ight Method for the Ordering and Curing of all 

 Dijeafes in Oxen^ Cows, Sheep:, Hogs, Goats, Dogs^ 

 and all [mall Cattle. 



I. Of o X E N. 



H E worthy Author having excellently treated of the Order and 

 Government of Horfes, both as to their Breeding, Feeding, and 

 Managing, as alfo for the curing of all Difeafes they are, or 

 may be incident to ; I thought it very proper to add by way of 

 Jf^endix, this fhort, but necelfary Treatife for the Diredions 

 cf the painful Country- man in his ordering all other forts of Cattle, 'viz,. Ox- 

 en, Cows, Sheep, Hog?, &c. and herein I (hall be as (hort as may be, gi- 

 ving you only thofe approved Receipts, which not only the former, but 

 thefe modern Times have frequently experienced. 



C H A P. I. For the Cough in Oxen. 



A Cough of no long continuance may foon be remedied by a Drink 

 which you may make with Water and Barley-MeaJ, adding loms 

 Bean-flower and fome Stich-worr, and fo given to your Beaft, 



h certain Cure for an old Cough, is. To fteep two pound of Hi(Top in 

 a quart or two of Water, well mix'd with eight pound ofLentil-peafe min- 

 gled together ; Likewife give the Beaft fine Wheat and Roots of Leeks 

 clean wafhed, well beat together, fafting. You may alfo ftamp Garlick 

 and Dragon-Water, new Ale and Butter, and being warm give it the 

 Beaft. 



CHAP. II. For a Beaft's Hoof Hurt. 



IF your Ox by chance be hurt with a Stub of Wood, or with a Coulter 

 or Share, on any part of the Clees, mix but the Powder of Brimftone 

 with a Salve of Pitch and old Greafe well melted together, then pour it 

 hot on any fore part. 



To keep your Beads from Foundring ; When you unyoke them wafli 

 their Feet with cold Water ; likewife let their Pafterns and Clees be anoint- 

 ed with old Greafe, and they will do well. 



To Cure the Gravel or a Cut in an Ox's Foot ; Let him be bathed in 

 warm Water, then melt Tar and old Greafe for an Ointment, and if with 

 old frefb Greafe you rub and chafe his Feet before you unyoke him, nothing 

 is better to preferve them. 



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