The cattle-keeper's assistant; or Complete directory for country gentlemen, sportsmen, farmers, graziers, farriers, game and cow keepers, horse dealers, carriers &c. : being a most valuable collection of approved observations in the choice of cattle, and receipts ) made by persons of note and experience) for the cure of every distemper incident to horses, oxen, cows, calves, sheep, lambs, hogs, & dogs, (with descriptions of the symptoms), digested under their proper heads. To which are added, strictures on the management of cattle, in order to a a healthy propagation and increase of their several species, and a prevention of their maladies; also a plan of tables for keeping accounts of laborers employed in wilderness, park, pleasure and kitchen garden, and for more readily stating the number and condition of cattle, viz. saddle, coach & cart horses; sheep & lambs; pointers, bullocks, cows, and calves; deer; spaniels, &c. /

Niall Kenny description: Manuscript dates of 1783 and 1784 in a copy previously held by me. All editions now very rare, often only surviving in single copies; the dating of Dixwell's publications is very hard. D 533 has a manuscript date of 1781 and here we have 1783/4; a copy of the 3rd editi...

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