A treatise on cattle : showing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, asses, mules, horned cattle, sheep, goats, and swine ; with directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders : to which is added, a dissertation on their contagious diseases ; carefully collected from the best authorities, and interspersed with remarks / by John Mills, Esq.

  • Mills, John, -1784?
Date:
1795
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Credit: A treatise on cattle : showing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, asses, mules, horned cattle, sheep, goats, and swine ; with directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders : to which is added, a dissertation on their contagious diseases ; carefully collected from the best authorities, and interspersed with remarks / by John Mills, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by beginning early, that he is brought willing to bear the yoke, and be eauly managed. At the age of two years and a half, or at fartheft three, it is time to begin to tame him, and bring hi.u under fubjeclion; tor 1. this is delayed longer, he becomes headttrong, and often ungovernable. The only method of fucceeding herein is, by pa- tience, mildncii, and even cardies; for violence and rough ulage will only dilguft him beyond the power of recovery. Stroaking him gently along the back, clapping him with the hand, giving him occafionally boiled barley, ground beans, ana fu other aliments as pleafe him moll, all of them mixed with fait, cf which he is very lunu, will prove of the greateft uie. At the fame time a rope (hould be frequently tied about his horns, and fonie time af- ter the yoke fnould be put about his neck, and fas- tened, firft to a pair of wheels only, and then to a plough, with another 02; of the fame fize ready (rained; after this they Humid be tied together at the fame manger, and be led together to pa'fturc, that they may become acquainted, and accullomed to I'tep alike. The goad lliould never be made uie of at firft, becaufe it then would only render him more untraceable. He mult alfo ba indulged, and labour only at ihoi t intervals; for till he nas been . thoroughly trained, he tires himfelf very for which reafon alfo he (hould thea be fed more plentifully than ar other times. Alfo, when he is to work, efpecially if it be in ftiff ground, am; when he is to go upon the road, he fh mid be ihod, or, as the country people and far- riers term it, qued. He fhouid draw the ploi only from his third to his tenth year; for al this it will be advifable to fatten and ieil him, histic-ih being then bcttei than it hewas keptlon It is laid that oxen which fe< d flowly bear labour better than thoie which eat falter; that fuclV as D