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Author: Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.
Title: The epitome of the whole art of husbandry comprising all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : together with the gentlemans heroick exercise, discoursing of horses, their nature and use ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard / by J.B. Gent.
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Print source: The epitome of the whole art of husbandry comprising all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... : together with the gentlemans heroick exercise, discoursing of horses, their nature and use ... : to which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit trees and improving of an orchard / by J.B. Gent.
Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.
London: Printed for Ben. Billingsley and Obadiah Blagrave, 1669.
Subject terms:
Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Fruit-culture.
Horsemanship.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28318.0001.001
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To my ever Honoured Un∣cle George Miller Esq of Swal∣lowfield, in the County of Wils.
THE TABLE TO THE EPITOME OF THE Art of Husbandry.
THE EPITOME OF THE Art of Husbandry: With the ancient Terms thereof, as they have been used in several Counties of England: Together with the Chiefest, Choicest, and most Experimental Observations; as well of former, as also our Mo∣dern more Refined Writers in Ru∣stical Affairs.
Of the diverse manner of Ploughs.
To know the Names of all parts of the Plough.
Of the tempering of the Ploughs.
Necessary things that belong to a Plough, Cart, or Wain.
Whether is better a Plough of Horses, or a Plough of Oxen.
Of Horses and Mares to draw.
To carry Wood and other Necessaries.
To carry out Dung or Muck, and spread it.
The first Stirring.
The second Stirring.
To Harrow all manner of Corn.
To Fallow.
How to plough all manner of times of the year.
How to plough for Pease and Beans.
How all manner of Corn should be sown, and how much most commonly on an Acre.
How to sow Wheat and Rye.
To sow Barley.
To sow Oats.
How to sever Pease, Beans, and Fitches.
How all manner of Corn should be covered.
To load Corn, and mow it.
How to know divers manner of Weeds.
How to weed Corn.
How to mow and shear Barley and Oats.
To reap or mow Pease or Beans.
How Rye should be shorn.
How to shear Wheat.
How to sow both Pease and Beans.
To make a Ditch.
To get Sets, and set them.
To make a Hedge.
To plash or plete a Hedge.
To mend a High-way.
How Forkes and Rakes should be made.
How to mow Grass.
To redde and make Hay.
To remove and set Trees.
How to set Trees without Roots, and yet for them to grow.
Necessary things belonging to Grafting.
How to Graft.
What should be first Grafted.
How to graft betwixt the Bark and the Tree.
To nourish all manner of Stone-Fruits, and Nuts.
To fell Timber.
To fell Wood for the House, or to sell.
To keep Spring Wood.
How to shred, lop, and crop Trees.
Particular Secrets and choice Rules for Setting, Watering, and Ordering of several choice Plants, Roots, delecta∣ble Flowers and Herbs for Gardens. The ordering of the Summer-Garden for pleasure and delight, as also for the more profitable increase of the Kit∣chin Garden: Together with Dire∣ctions how to sow and order for the Season whatsoever belongeth to the Summer or Kitchin-Gardens; for Plants, Herbs, Roots, Seeds, &c. As also for the aptest time to gather, dry, and preserve them.
Of Bees.
How to keep Beasts and other Cattel.
To buy fat Cattel.
To buy lean Cattel.
To rear Calves.
To geld Calves.
Of which is the greatest loss, a Lamb, a Calf, or Foal.
What Cattel should go together in one Pasture.
Of Swine.
Of the Properties of Horses.
Of the divers Diseases of Cattel, and the Reme∣dies thereof, and first of the Murrain.
Of the Long-saught, with the Remedy.
Of Dewholm, and the hard Remedy thereof.
Of the Rysen upon, and the Remedy thereof.
Of the Turn, and the Remedy thereof.
Of the Warry-breed, and the Remedy.
Of the Foul, and the Remedy.
Of the Gout without Remedy.
To help a Beast that pisseth Blood.
A Remedy for the Blain in the Tongue.
To help a Beast that is goared.
A Remedy for the Pantasie in a Beast.
To kill Lice and Ticks in Cattel.
A sovereign Remedy for the Plague in Cattel.
An approved Remedy for the Tetter in Cattel.
An excellent Cure for an Ox or Cow that hath a Fever.
An excellent Remedy for the Lungs of Cattel infected.
To help an Ox or any other Beast that have lost their Quide.
A Remedy that fails not to cure a Beast that cannot piss.
To cure a Cow of the Whethered.
A Remedy for the faintness of a labour∣ing Ox.
To recover the Leanness of a Cow.
Remedies against the Worms in Cattel.
Against the Milting of an Ox, or any other Beast.
An excellent Remedy for the dropping Nostrils and watery Eyes of Cattel.
To cure the Garget in the Maw.
A Remedy against the crying and fretting of the Guts in Cattel, by some called, the Crowling.
To cure Impostumes in Beasts.
To cure a Beast that is goared.
The best times to be observed to stop Laxes.
A sudden and approved Remedy against a Sprain or Stroke.
To cure Calves that have the Worms in their Bellies.
An approved Remedy for the Costiveness in Cattel.
An excellent Cure for a Beast that is Hide∣bound.
An excellent Cure for the Garget in the throat of a Beast
A certain Remedy against the Worm in a Beasts tayl.
An approved Remedy to cure Galls and Scabs in Cattel.
A Remedy for the Galling of the Neck or Throat with the Yoke.
A Cure for the Itch in Cattel.
A Cure for the flowing of the Gall.
An approved Remedy against the Colick in Cattel.
An excellent Remedy against the Haw in the Eye.
A Remedy for the Kibes in the Heel.
An excellent Remedy for the sickness of the Lungs.
Excellent Remedies for the Cough in Cattel.
For the Navel-gall, with the Remedy.
Of the Worms, with the Remedy.
Of the Farcy, with the Remedy.
Of a Courb, with the Remedy.
Of Wind-galls in Horses, with the Remedy.
Of the Pains and Cratches of a Horse, with the Remedy.
Of the Ringbone, a Disease in Horses, with the Remedy.
Of the Spaven, with the Remedy thereof.
Of the wet or blood Spaven, with the Remedy.
For any dangerous Bots or Maw-worms, the Remedy.
Of the Serew or Serow, with the Remedy of it.
Of a Malender, with the Remedy.
Of the Splent, with the Remedy.
Of the Glanders, with the Remedy.
An excellent Remedy for the Haw in the Eye.
Of the Barbes, Barbels, with the Remedy.
Of the Vives, with the Remedy of it.
Of the Mourning Chine, with the Remedy.
Of the Broken Wind, with the Remedy.
Of the Gravelling of the Horse, with the Remedy.
Of the Lampas, with the Remedy.
Of the Accloyed, or Cloying the Foot with the prick of a Nail, with the Remedy.
Of the Colts Evil, with the Remedy.
Of the Pains in the Head, with the Remedy.
Of a Horse that stumbleth, which is called the Cordes, with the Remedy.
Of the Morefound, with the Remedy.
Of the Enterfere, with the Remedy.
Of the Scelander, with the appointed Remedy.
Of the Scab, with the Remedies.
A Remedy for cut and bruised Sinews.
For a Horse that cannot piss.
To bring Hair again.
For the Stone and Colick in a Horse, the Remedy.
Of a present Remedy to kill the Fire either in Burning or Shot.
To ripen an Impostume.
For a Wrench in the Fetlocks, or any other Joynt that is suddenly done.
For the dangerous Galling of a Horse, an excellent Remedy.
Of Warts in general, and of the spongy Wart, with the Remedy.
To help the Surbaiting or Soreness of a Horses Feet.
For a Wrench or Strain in the Pastern.
For a Back Sinew-strain, or any other Strain.
For a frothy Hoof.
Of the Atteint.
Of the Mourning of the Tongue.
A Remedy for a Pinch or a Gall in the Withers.
A present Remedy for the Staggers.
An excellent Remedy for the Strangles.
A Remedy for the Swelling of the Cods.
A Remedy for the Mattering of the Yard.
An excellent Cure for the Tetter.
A rare Medicine for a sore Back, be it never so wrung with a Saddle.
For the Botch in the Groyns of the Horse.
A Remedy for the Lax.
A Remedy for the Costiveness or Belly-bound.
An excellent Remedy for the Yellows.
A Remedy for the Swelling of the Gums.
A Remedy for the Rifts and Corruption in the Palate of the Mouth.
A certain Remedy for the Camey in the Mouth.
A Remedy for the Heat in the Mouth.
A Remedy for a Cold in the Head.
An excellent Remedy for the Canker in the Mouth.
Of the Lousie.
Of the Repairing of a broken Hoof, that it may grow.
A certain Remedy for the Fretting of the Guts.
Of pulling out of Shivers or Throns, and of Swelling.
Of the Strangullion.
Of Blindness.
Of the Foaling of the Yard, with the Remedy.
Of the Millets, without Remedy.
An excellent Remedy for the String hault, or any old Strain or Lameness in the sinewy Joynts.
A Remedy approved for the Hide-bound, by some improperly called the Affreyde.
A Remedy for the Hurt of the Tongue with a Bit.
A Remedy for the Giggs in the Mouth.
An excellent Receipt to fatten a Horse.
An excellent Remedy against a Horses surfeiting with Provender.
These following things are most excellent to put into a Horses Provender, to preserve him from Diseases.
Of the Catarrh in Hogs, with the Remedy.
Approved Cures for a Hog bitten by a mad, or by other Dogs.
An approved Remedy for the Staggers or stirring Disease in Hogs.
To make a Hog to scour.
Of the Lethargy in Hogs, with the Remedy.
A Remedy for the Lask in Hogs.
To kill Maggots in Hogs.
An approved Remedy for the Disease in Hogs, called the Milt.
To cure Hogs that have eaten of poysonous Herbs.
To cure the Impostumes under the Hogs Throats.
An approved Cure of the Garget in Hogs.
A Remedy, together with a Bath for a Swine that hath the Swine-Pox.
A Remedy for lousie Hogs.
Preservatives against the Meazles, with the most approved Cures of them in Hogs.
To fat Sheep.
To make the Wool to come again.
Of the Red Water, with the Remedy.
An excellent Remedy for the Cough of a Sheep.
Of the cloven Pesil.
A Remedy for the Flegm.
To kill Maggots.
A Remedy for the Water in the Belly or Head.
For the Worms in the Cuts, the Remedy.
Of the Tin-worm.
A Remedy for the Loosness of the Teeth.
A Remedy for the Flowing of the Gall.
A Remedy for the Choler in Sheep.
A Cure for the Lousie in Sheep.
Of the Wild-fire.
A Remedy for a Sheep that hath lost her Quide.
An excellent Cure for the Staggers in Sheep.
Ʋseful Preservatives when the Pestilence rageth amongst Sheep.
A Remedy for the short Breath and Pursie.
To help the Wethering of a Sheep.
A Remedy for the turning Disease in the Sheep.
For the Jaundice.
A Remedy for the Water in the Belly of a Sheep.
A Remedy for the Water-bladder under the Chin.
A Remedy for the Lung-sick or Pursiness.
To cure the Glanders or Snivel.
To cure the Itch or Scab in Sheep.
An excellent Remedy for the Giddiness in Sheep.
Approved Remedies for the Haw in the Eye, and other Distempers of the Eyes.
Of a stop in the Teats.
How to set and see over the Sheepfold.
What time of the year the Rams should be put to the Ews.
To make an Ew to love her Lamb.
At what time Lambs should be weaned.
To draw Sheep, and to sever them in divers parts.
To meddel Tar.
To make Broom-Salve.
To grease Sheep.
To belt Sheep.
To wash Sheep.
To shear Sheep.
How to draw out and separaete the bad Sheep from the good.
If a Sheep have the Mathes.
Of the Blindness of Sheep.
Of the Worm in the Sheeps Foot, and Help thereof.
Of the Blood, and the timely Remedy of it.
Of the Pocks, and the Remedy thereof.
Of the Wood-Evil, and the Remedy thereof.
What are the things that chiefly rot Sheep.
To know rotten Sheep divers manner of ways, whereof some of them never fail.
BRIEF Experimental Directions FOR The Right Use of the ANGLE.
The Nature, Use, and Benefit of Marle.
The best way of planting of Trefoyl or Clover-grass.
Of the Plantation of Hops, and how Land is improved thereby.
Of the Mystery of Saffron, and the way of planting of it.
Of the Plantation of Liquorish at large.
How good a Commodity Hemp is, with the manner of Planting of it.
The Husbanding of Flax so as to make it come up as much of the Improvement as we can.
A Discovery of Rape and Coal-seeds Hus∣bandry.
Of Weld or Would, as some call it, or more properly Dyers-Weed.
Of Woad or Wade, the Land best for it, the Ʋ∣sage of it, and the Advantages thereby.
The Nature, Ʋse, and Advantage of Madder.
THE YOUNG GENTLEMANS Heroick Exercise; OR THE Perfection of Horsemanship, drawn from Nature, Art, and Practice of Riding.
chapter
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
CHAP. IV.
CHAP. V.
CHAP. VI.
CHAP. VII.
A true and brief way of Planting and Ordering of all sorts of Or∣chards, either Apple, Pear, Plum, or Cherry, according to the Experience of the Author; being never before Published.
An Advertisement of Books worth Buying, sold at the Printing-press in Broad-street London (which was formerly in Corn∣bil) by Ben Billingsley and Obadiah Blagrave.