The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
Avoid all rough usage. Do not hold up the body by the feet, or roll
it on casks, or rub it with salt, or spirits, or apply tobacco. Lose
not a moment, carry the body, the head and shoulders raised, to the
nearest house. Place it in a warm room. Let it be instantly stripped,
dried, and wrapped in hot blankets, which are to be renewed when
necessary. Keep the mouth, nostrils, and the throat free and clean.
Apply warm substances to the back, spine, pit of the stomach, arm
pits, and soles of the feet. Rub the body with heated flannel, or
warm hands.—Attempt to restore breathing, by gently blowing with
bellows into one nostril closing the mouth and the other nostril.
Keep up the application of heat. Press down the breast carefully with
both hands, and then let it rise again, and thus imitate natural
breathing. Continue the rubbing, and increase it when life appears,
and then give a tea-spoonful of warm water, or of very weak wine or
spirits and warm water. Persevere for six hours. Send quickly for
medical assistance.
THE LAND STEWARD AND BAILIFF.
To form a complete LAND STEWARD, it is requisite that theory and
practice should be combined. By consulting books we profit by the
experience of other men, enlarge our own sphere of thinking, and add
more, perhaps, to our stock of knowledge in a short space of time, than
could be acquired by long and laborious practice. No land steward or
even ordinary farmer should be without _Young’s Farmer’s Calendar_,
the last edition of which, improved by Middleton, contains a body of
valuable information; but Mr. Lawrence on this subject, with great
propriety, recommends the reading of Tull and Miller, as the great
originals on tillage; Ellis on sheep and other live stock; and the
Surveys of the several Counties of the Kingdom, made, and published by
the Board of Agriculture.
To these, for a further knowledge in the treatment of live stock, may
be recommended a perusal of our best veterinary treatises. We must also
recommend Sir John Sinclair’s Code of Agriculture, as a companion to
Middleton’s edition of Young’s Calendar, and these, with Mackenzie’s
Receipt Book, ought to be the standing literary furniture of every
steward’s room.
The land steward should never undertake more business than he can
faithfully and properly execute, and therefore should have no other
occupation or profession to attend; the mere collecting of rents and
giving discharges being the least considerable part of his duty.
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