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.

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Author:	Smith, John, d. 1684.
Title:	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.
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title page

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THE PREFACE TO THE READER.

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OF FOWL, and their Haunts, &c.

The ordering of the Net to take large Water-fowl.

To take small Water-fowl with folding Day-nets, &c.

Land-fowl their Haunts, and how to take them with Nets.

To drive Larks and other Birds into Nets: To place Nets in Woods, Coppices, &c. for Phea∣sants, and other Fowl that have there their Haunts.

Of taking Sparrows, &c. with the Clap-Net.

Partridges Haunts, and of setting them.

Another way to take Patridge with the Net.

The way of driving Partridges and Quails into the Tramelling Net.

Sundry ways for taking Pheasants, with their Haunts, &c.

To drive young Pheasants, or Pheasant-Pouts.

To Fowl with the Piece and Stalk∣ing-Horse.

A way in general to take Birds with the Crown-net.

An excellent way to dare and take Larks in the day-time.

To know good Powder, cast round Shot of different sizes, charge your Fowling-pieco, and cleanse it when foul.

Directions to make the best Bird∣lime for Land and Water, and how to keep it from Freezing.

To take Water Fowl of divers kinds, with Lime-Rods, the manner of ordering and placing them to the best advantage, &c.

Another way to take Land and Wa∣ter Fowl, viz. with Lime-strings.

Snipes, how to take with Water-Bird-lime, &c. also Larks.

Land-Fowl not mentioned, how to take them with Bird lime; and first the Pheasant.

How to take Pigeons, Crows, Pyes, &c. with Lime-twigs.

To take Feldfars and Stares with Bird-lime.

How to Lime Partridges.

To take all sorts of small Birds with the Lime-bush or Twigs.

Another excellent way to take small Birdg.

To take Water-Fowl with Snares and Sprindges.

The manner of Bat-Fowling.

Low-belling.

To take Birds another way, by Lights.

To take Birds with the Trammel.

The Art of taking Fowl with Baits, and of Trap-Cages.

To make Birds Sing in Autumn and Winter.

Diseases incident to Singing-Birds, and their Cures.

Diseases in Poultry, and their Remedies.

For the stopping in the Belly.

For the Crow-trodden.

Divers useful Experi∣ments, relating to Poultry.

For a Hen that Crows.

To make a Hen Lay soon, and fast.

To keep a Hen from Sitting.

To prevent a Hens eating her Eggs.

To keep a Hen from growing too Fat.

How to make a Capon Lead and Brood Chickens.

The Speediest way to Fatten Poultry.

To Feed, and Cram Capons, Fat them, &c.

To Feed, and Fatten Turkeys and Geese.

To Feed, and Fatten Hens, Pullets, and Cocks.

To Fatten Duck Wild or Tame.

Swans, their Feeding.

To Fatten Pigeons, Partridges, Pheasants, &c.

Godwits, Knots, Grey, Plover or Curlews.

The order of Feeding Black birds, Thrushes, Fieldsars, Larks, and other small Birds.

To Fatten Herons, Puits, Gulls and Bitterns.

Pea cocks and Pea hens.

THE Compleat Marketer: OR, Rules to know all sorts of Poulterers Ware, whither Young or Old, New or Stale, by un∣erring Signs and To∣kens.

Four-footed Creatures usually sold at the Poulterers, to know whe∣ther young or old, new or stale.

How to destroy Vermin, or such offensive Creatures, as are de∣structive to Fish, Fowl, Cat∣tel, &c.

The Compleat Ver∣min-killer, shew∣ing a Ready way to destroy all sorts of Vermin.

To destroy Mice and Rats.

To scare away Mice and Rats.

To gather Rats and Mice together.

To make Rats and Mice blind.

To kill Weasles.

To gather Weasles.

To drive away Weasles.

To prevent their sucking Eggs.

To kill Moles.

To gather Moles together.

To drive Snakes or Adders out of any Out-houses, Gardens, or Ground.

To kill Snakes or Adders.

To destroy the Pole-cat and Fox.

Pismires to destroy.

To kill Slugs, or Snails.

To destroy Earwigs.

To destroy Catterpillars.

To destroy Bugs.

To destroy Fleas and Lice.

To destroy Nits, Head-lice, Crab-lice, &c.

To destroy Flies.

The Supplement.

To take young Hawks.

To take the Fox with a Hook.

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