A Compleat System of Experienced Improvements, Made on Sheep, Grass-lambs, and House-lambs: Or, the Country-gentleman's, the Grazier's, the Sheep-dealer's, and the Shepherd's Sure Guide ... By William Ellis ..

George Faulkner, 1749 - Sheep - 384 pages

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QUANTITIES	36

WestCountry Sheep their good Properties	37

Turnipfed M	41

Welch Sheep how a Gentleman ſent his Bailiff into Wales	47

V	51

Ewes this Authors Second Way to make an hundred of them take	65

Weaning Lambs the Hertfordshire Way of doing	81

Sheep what is meant by their swelling or hoving	299

Sheeps Life to save that is hoved in Clover a quick Way	305

Shepherd how he found Half a Score TaintWorms in the Body	306

AUTHOR his Method to cure a Sheep hoved in Clover P 304 Author bis Method of making a quick and effectual Cure	308

Cafe shewing how a Sheep was killed by Worms and how ano	310

Sheep cured that were poisoned by the TaintWorm by two	311

Author his Receipt to prevent the Breed of the White and Red	315

Certificate from a Gentleman of this Authors ſaving his Flock	316

Wounded or hurt Sheep and Lambs Remedies	97

WoundWater to dress a Sheep with IOI A fecond Receipt	117

Sheep rotted how it lived a Year and fatted Page	147

Sheep how rotted by the BeanWeed 164 How rotted by Hail	164

Signs that usually accompany a Sheep that has the RedWater	170

Somerſetſhire Receipt for the RedWater	182

Sickness of the Gall Choler Jaundice and the like by an	189

Staggers fix Receipts to cure it	201

Shepherd how he ſaved feveral of his Masters Sheep from	207

Turnip Sheep when to draw them out of a Flock for fattening	211

Sheep fickened and died for Want of good Management while	216

Folding Sheep in Winter the Benefit of	224

Folding the Advantage of it on new fown Corn	232

Turnips the Process of a Hertfordshire Farmer in fattening	237

Folding the yearly Practice of a Chiltern Farmer that folded	239

Forward Folding Ground	246

TroughMeats for HouseLambs	262

Health	264

BOOK	265

HedgeHogs hurting a Ewes Teat cured	270

Urinous Receipt for the	271

FOOTRot Malady attending Ewes that fuckle HouseLambs in Hertfordshire and Middlefex 279 Causes of it	279

FootRot to make a Salve to cure it and harden the Foot	285

WoodEvil this Authors Receipt to cure it from Buckingham	321

BOOK	322

Cinquefoil or fiveleaved Grass its Virtues in curing ſeveral	323

Scab an Introduction ſhewing the true Cause of it	327

Lambs Scabby Mouth to cure by this Author	332

SheepTicks or SheepLice 334	334

Farmer prudent his Method to kill Lice or Ticks in Sheep	337

Sore Heads of Sheep the wrong Way some take to cure them	343

Adam Speeds Receipt to cure the Cankers in a Sheeps Mouth	346

Cud the Loss of it in Sheep or Lambs	349

Skit or Scour in a Sheep or Lamb the Cause of it	355

Cafe of a Chiltern Farmer who had a Sheep died by the Skit	357

Feeding and fattening Sheep and Lambs	358

Beanfed Mutton its Nature	361

Caſe ſhewing how a poor Man fed eighty Sheep a whole Year	363

StoreSheep the different Management of two Farmers in feed	364

Fatting twotoothed Sheep fourtoothed Sheep and fixtoothed	365

Watering Sheep in Summer and Winter	369

Fox killed a large Lamb but could not carry it off	372

Preventing Sheep hoving and fickening while they feed on Turnips	373

Crib the Dimensions of one for holding a Mixture of a most	374

Flock of Sheep that had more Wool than ordinary on them by rub	378

Wool the Difference of it from wellfed Sound Sheep and rot	379

Title	A Compleat System of Experienced Improvements, Made on Sheep, Grass-lambs, and House-lambs: Or, the Country-gentleman's, the Grazier's, the Sheep-dealer's, and the Shepherd's Sure Guide ... By William Ellis ..
Author	William Ellis (Farmer.)
Publisher	George Faulkner, 1749
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	3 Feb 2015
Length	384 pages

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