Of Dijeajes in Sheep. 



the Bealt warm. There are levcral cthtT chings fet down, buc thele weiJ 

 ordered, the Beafts will do well, God wiping. 



CHAP. XV. For Fattening of Oxen. 



Countrymen, and my Friends, if you defire to fat your Oxen well, ob- 

 ferve thefe following Diredtions : Firft, he will like his meat the bet- 

 ter if he go in the Sun, or if with warm' Water he be wafhed three times 

 a Week; then give him to eat ground Beans, diied Barley, or Elm- 

 leaves ; or if you boil Coleworts with Bran, ic will make their Bellies 

 loofe, and add to Nutriment more than Barley ; Chaff likewife fometimes 

 mixc with ground Beans is very good. If your Ox by Labour be weak or 

 feeble, once a Month give him Vetches beat and fteeped in Water mixed 

 with beaten Bran,- and to make your Beaft lively and nimble, rub his Horns 

 with Turpentine being mixt with Oil Olive ; touch not any other part of 

 his Head befiJe the Horns, for it will in fome time endanger his Sight. 

 Aho, if you rub and chafe the Muzzel or Mouth of an Ox with Garlick 

 bruifdd, or Leeks well beat, he being made to fwallow it, he will afliiredly 

 be cured of a rifing that comes over the Heart of the Beaft, whereby he 

 feems as th&' he would vomit. 



CHAP. XVI. A certain Cure fir the Murrain or Plague amongft Cattle. 



THere are feveral Remedies for the Plague or Murrain amongft Cattle, 

 if taken berimes. Infcflious Blood caufes the Difeafe ; it is vulgarly 

 difcerned in the Head by a fU'tlling, they will have great Eyes that run 

 with Water; they will eat though they are fick, and when once they froth 

 at Mouth they are near Death. For cure of this Difeafe, it is thought good 

 by fome to bind a (mail Cord hard about the Neck, then take a Lancet and 

 Itrike on the farther fide, where you will find a Vein, bleed him a Pint or 

 more, and fo for the other fide of the Neck; It will ftanch, the Cord be- 

 ing taken away ; but it is more dangerous of bleeding ftiil the Sign being 

 there ; and if it continue, put to it Nettles and wild Tanfie bruifcd v;ith 

 Salt, and fome give them Drinks. Thus ferve your infedled Cattle, being 

 all together in one Pafture •, by this means you will avoid great Peril in 

 this Difeafe. The Murrain is caught by venomed Grafs, by Company, by 

 poiloned Water, and by Hunger. 



CHAP. XVII. To rear up Calves that they may increafs. 



IT will be prudence in a Husbandman every Year to rear as many Calves 

 as he thinks ncceflary for the maintenance of his Stock* Thofe that fail 

 betwixt Candlemas and May arc efteemed of beft, for at that time they can 

 fpare their Milk, and there will be Grafs enough, and they will be able h^ 

 the next Winter to ftiift for themfelves with other Cattle, being Icoked after 



