The Complete family-piece: and country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. In three parts. Part I. Containing, a very choice and valuable collection of the above one thousand we[l]l-experienced practical family-receipts in physick and surgery; cookery, pastry and confectionary, ... or pickling and preserving all sorts of fruits, tongues, hams, &c. for distilling and fermenting of all compound, simple waters and spirits; for making mum, cyder, and perry, ... with divers other useful and valuable receipts interspersed through the whole, particularly Dr. Mead's for the cure of the bite of a mad dog: many of which were never before printed, and the others experimentally taken from the latest and very best authorities; and being all regularly digested under their proper heads, are divided into six different chapters. Part II. containing, I. Full instructions to be observed in hunting, coursing, setting and shooting; ... as also receipts of the cleaning and preserving of boots, fire-arms, &c. II. Cautions, rules and directions to be taken and observed in fishing; ... III. A full and complete kalender of all work necessary to be done in the fruit, flower, and kitchen-gardens, green-house, &c. with the produce of each, in every month throughout the whole year. Part III. Containing, practical rules, and methods, for the improving of land, and managing a farm in all its branches; ... excellent receipts for destroying of moles, rats, and mice; a great number of choice receipts for the cure of all common distempers incident to all sorts of cattle; directions for Planting; instructions for keeping bees, tame rabbits, and pidgeons; and a complete kalendar of all business necessary to be done in the field, yard, &c. by the farmer in every month throughout the year. With a complete alphabetical index to each part.

Date:

MDCCXLIX. [1749]