The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry ... in which everything valuable from the best writers on this subject will be extracted ... / By a society of gentlemen, members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.

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1766
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Credit: The complete farmer: or, a general dictionary of husbandry ... in which everything valuable from the best writers on this subject will be extracted ... / By a society of gentlemen, members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the bottom of an old hot-bed : with this you fhould lill your pots or boxes in which you intend to fow your feeds; and having levelled the furface of the earth very fmooth, fow your feeds thereon, covering it very lightly with rotten willow mouldy taken out of the fteins of decayed hollow willow-trees; then cover the box, &c. with a net or wire, to prevent the cats, fowls, &c, from fcratching out, or burying your feeds too deep. Let thefe boxes, &c. be placed fo as to receive only the morning fun, during the winter fcafon ; but in the be¬ ginning of March remove them where they may have fcarce any fun, for your plants will now foon begin to appear; and if expofed to one whole day’s fun, would be all deftroyed. During the fummer feafon, refrefli them often with water in dry weather, but never give them too great great quantities at once. In the month of July follow- ing, your young auriculas will be large enough to tranf- plant, at which time you muft prepare a bed or boxes, filled with the above-mentioned foil, in which you may plant them at about three inches diftant; and, if in beds, you muft fnade them every day, till they are thoroughly rooted, as alfo in very hot dry weather; but if they^are in balkets or boxesj they may be removed into a fhady place. When the feedling auriculas are planted in beds, there fliould be fome rotten neat’s dung laid about ten inches under the furface, and beaten down clofe and fmooth: this will prevent the worms from drawnng the young plants out of the earth, which they gene¬ rally do where this is not pradlifed. This dung fhould be laid about a foot thick, which will entirely prevent the worms getting through it, until the plants are well eftablifhed in the beds ; and the roots of the auriculas will ftrike down into the dung by the fpring, which will make their flowers ftronger than ufual: thefe beds fhould be expofed to the eaft, and fereened from the fouth fun. The fpring following many of thefe flowers will fhew; when you may feledl fuch of them as have good properties, which fhould each of them be removed into a feparate pot of the fame prepared earth, and pre- ferved until the next feafon, at which time you will be able to form a judgment of the goodnefs of the flower; but thofe that produce plain coloured, or fmall flowers, fhould be taken out and planted in borders, in the out- parts of the garden; and the others which do not pro¬ duce their flowers the fame year, may be taken up, and tranfplanted into a frefh bed, to remain till you fee how they will prove. The manner of propagating thefe flowers when ob¬ tained, is from ofF-fets, or flips, taken from the old roots in April, when the flowers are in bloom : thefe oflf-fets muft be planted into fmall pots filled with the fame fort of earth, as was before diredled for the feed- lings ; and during the fummer feafon fhould be fet in a fhady place, and muft be often, but very gently, re- frefhed with water. In the autumn and winter they muft be fheltered from violent rains. The fpring fol¬ lowing thefe young plants will produce flowers, though weak; foon after they are paft flowering, you muft put them into large pots, and the fecond year they will blow in perfedlion. Miller s Card. Didi. AWMS, the bejyrd of wheat or barley. The word is, in fome parts of England, pronounced ails. AXIS, or axle-tree, of a waggon, cart, &c. is the ftrong piece of wood or iron, which fupports the car¬ riage, and round the extremities of which the wheels turn. See the articles Cart and Waggon. BAG AOK-SINEW, in a horfe, is that ftrong finew extending along the hinder part of the fhank from the knee to the heel, into which it is inferted. The back-finew is fo very fubjedl to be hurt or ftrain- cd, that it is confidered as one of the moft common and ufual accidents tiiat happens to a horfe ; it generally pro¬ ceeds from hard riding upon dry grounds, and from other caufes, where the roads are ftony and hard, and fome- times where they are poachy. It is eafily perceived by the fwelling of the finew, which fometimes extends from the knee down to the heel; and when it is fo, a horfe does not care to fet his foot even upon the ground; but, for the moft part, in his ftandmg, fets it before the other. The ufual way of curing this malady, is with cold charges, which often fucceed very well, if often renew¬ ed; fome ufe curriers ftiavings bound round the knee with a bandage, and this alfo anfwers very well in fome cafes; but there is nothing either fo ready or efficacious as vinegar or verjuice mixed with bole, being often in a day foaked well into the finew warm ; and if any thing of the lamenefs or fwelling remains after this, and after the heat and inflammation is gone off, a mild blifter, that has nothing corrofive in it befides the cauftic fait of the flies, will, generally fpeaking, efteduate a cure, and bring the finew fine. BAG When hot and relaxing oils mixed together are ufed to the back-finew, which many praditioners are fond of, becaufe they fometimes fucceed in horfes that have their finews ftrong and rigid, yet they are apt to engen¬ der wind-galls of a bad kind, or make the veins on each fide the finew to be full and gorged ; and horfes have been known to be lame for two or three years together with thefe varixes in the veins. Bliftering in this cafe has very little or no effed, filing through the vein till the blood comes being only fufficient to remove that weaknefs. After the firing, the whole leg from the knee down to the heel, and all the hollow places on both fides, muft be charged with a good ftrengthening plaifter, which will perfed the cure, efpecially if the horfe be turned to grafs for a month or five weeks, or, in the winter, if he run a little while in a fmooth yard, where he has good dry litter. Gibfon on the Difeafes of Horfes. BACOM, the flefh of a hog dried in the fmoke. A writer in the Mufetim Riflicum, vol. III. pag. 234, has given us the following method of making bacon in Somerfetfliire. The feafon for killing hogs for bacon is between Sep¬ tember and Chriftmas. When you kill a large hog for bacon, lay the fides in the falting-troughs, and fprinkle them pretty heavily with bay-falt; then leave them twenty- 4