The Complete family-piece: and country gentleman, and farmer's best guide. [electronic resource] : 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, with a complete bill of fare for every month in the year, and instructions for placing the dishes on a table; 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, mead, and metheglin; and for making and preserving all sorts of excellent English wines; with good and useful instructions for brewing fine, strong, good, wholesome and palatable drinks, as beers, ales, &c. in small, quantities, and at easy rates, for the use of all private families; 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; with an account of the several kinds of dogs necessary for those diversions, and receipts for the cure of all common distempers to which they are liable; 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; with the manner of making the preserving of rods, lines, floats, artificial flies, &c. and for chusing and preserving several sorts of curious baits. 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; with several curious receipts for brining, liming, and preparing wheat, barley, oats, &c. for sewing; 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.