The jewell house of art and nature. Conteining divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of husbandry, distillation and moulding / [Sir Hugh Plat].

  • Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608
Date:
1594
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Credit: The jewell house of art and nature. Conteining divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of husbandry, distillation and moulding / [Sir Hugh Plat]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THerc is a great opinion concciued of a Worme that hath many feet and is found in a horfe-mill, where corne is ground,mod commonlie vnder the ground where the horfe treadeth, and is exceeding fweet, place this worme with lime twigs about her, where (he maybe feen,andyoufhal foonetakebiids therewith. But I take this rather to bee the worme wherein the Nightingale dooeth fo much delight, which is found in a mil-cafe, or where Bakers vfe to bo ult their meale. « * Hvr V ■ s • j*d * r ; r.' • r . ( . I s <f. How to catch Pigeons, Crowes, Iacke-dawes, and CMagpics. t _ ; \ T^Or the taking of pigeons, you mud makeafhrap r three or fouredaies together, laying lofe lines a- monged the peafe vntill the Doues bee acquainted therwith, then in fom euening tie at thofe lines great {lore of drings,which with a needle before, you mud thrud through the peafe,being firdfodden foftefor the purpofe, and at the end of euery dringtie alittle knot, when a pigeon hath fvvallowed downe one of thefe peafe, together with the dring,fhe cannot pof- (iblie get it vp againe,but fhe is eafilie taken. Perhaps fome other birdes may alfo be taken in this manner. It is not amide to biae the threcds neare the peafe with grade, earth or draw, or fomefuch like matter. j Alfo if you throw gobbets of flefh or cheefe curds a- j broad in thefieldes where therebeftoreof Rookcs, Crowes,Dawes,or Magpies,within the which there is conueied lome of the powder of t^frfcnicke 01 fubli-