COLONEL GEORGE HANGER,

TO ALL
SPORTSMEN,

AND PARTICULARLY TO
FARMERS, AND GAMEKEEPERS.

Above Thirty Years' Practice in Horses and Dogs; how to
feed and take care of them, and also to cure them of all
common Disorders.

Effectually to allure and catch all Vermin.

THE RAT-CATCHING SECRET;

TO CATCH EVERY RAT ON THE PREMISES ALIVE,
WITHOUT USING POISON.

To breed and feed Pheasants, and cure their Disorders.

On Fowling-Pieces, Rifle-Guns, and Muskets :—On boring 
Barrels, and the construction of Breech Pins :—Remarks
on Rifle Shooting, recommended to the attention of all
Riflemen, and particularly to Officers who have seen active
Service in a Rifle Corps.—On the Race of Pointers and
Setters.—How to keep all Arms loaded for two or three years,
so as to fire more sure, than if fresh loaded.—
Method of preventing Partridges being taken at
night by Drag-nets, when the Gamekeepers are asleep :—To prevent
Pheasants being destroyed by Night-shooters or
Poachers by day :—To catch whole flocks of Wood-pigeons
in hard weather, and all Water-fowl in any weather:—To
approach a Red Deer, in the Highlands of Scotland, within
thirty or forty yards.—Of Running Horses—training, and
breeding young Colts.—Cure for Bullocks and Cows swelled
from eating Clover.—Cure for the Scurvy. — To shoot
Wild-fowl, Pewits, Golden Plover, Wild Geese, and
Bustards, by night. —Remarks on the Rifle-Bench which
Gunmakers use; their secrecy and folly in that respect
truly laughable.—To save the life of a Dog, when it has taken
Poison.—With several valuable Family Receipts.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,
A Plan for training and disciplining a Corps,

Such as never yet has appeared in any army of Europe, armed with a
peculiar and superior Gun which will shoot, with the precision of a
Rifle, one third further than any Rifle hitherto used on service; and
can also be loaded with Cartridges, and fired, as quick as a common Musket.

THE RICHMOND PUBLISHING CO. LTD
1971

The work provides a wealth of information for the country lover and sportsman and an amusing social document for the student of the times. The efficacy of the remedies put forward by Colonel Hanger in this reprint of the 1814 edition of his work may sometimes be in question but the entertainment value of his anecdotes and lively style is not.

22 x 14 cm. 226 pp.

Very good + condition, dust jacket faded on spine and repaired at head, small stain to front panel, spine slightly cocked. Contents clean, binding sound.