A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for Their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of Their Diseases. With a Chapter on Wool, and History of the Wool Trade, and the Management of Sheep in AustraliaW.R. M'Phun, 1838 - 236 páginas |
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... Habits . - 1V . Lessons of Thrift and Prudence . - V . Useful Remedies and Recipes , and General Maxims for the Preservation of Fe- male Health . - VI . Home - made Bread . - VII , Home- brewed Beer . - VIII . The Tea - Table . - IX ...
... Habits . - 1V . Lessons of Thrift and Prudence . - V . Useful Remedies and Recipes , and General Maxims for the Preservation of Fe- male Health . - VI . Home - made Bread . - VII , Home- brewed Beer . - VIII . The Tea - Table . - IX ...
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... habits the mountains of Asia , where it attains the size of a fallow deer . The male has very large horns , with three rounded angles at the base , flattened in front , and B striated transversely . The horns of the female are com-
... habits the mountains of Asia , where it attains the size of a fallow deer . The male has very large horns , with three rounded angles at the base , flattened in front , and B striated transversely . The horns of the female are com-
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... habit , that were it not that sheep , according to that naturalist , have " their horns directed backwards , returning more or less forwards in a spiral manner , with a generally convex line of profile , and no beard , " while the goats ...
... habit , that were it not that sheep , according to that naturalist , have " their horns directed backwards , returning more or less forwards in a spiral manner , with a generally convex line of profile , and no beard , " while the goats ...
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... habit of having transactions with the United States of America ; and I find that a very con- siderable proportion of fine woollens , and stuffs , are absolutely shipped from the Netherlands , and from ports contiguous , part of which I ...
... habit of having transactions with the United States of America ; and I find that a very con- siderable proportion of fine woollens , and stuffs , are absolutely shipped from the Netherlands , and from ports contiguous , part of which I ...
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... habit , to surrounding circumstances , which would , were the variations abrupt , speedily destroy it . The reason why a race of animals occasionally thrives so well in a coun- try to which it may be removed , appears to lie in its ...
... habit , to surrounding circumstances , which would , were the variations abrupt , speedily destroy it . The reason why a race of animals occasionally thrives so well in a coun- try to which it may be removed , appears to lie in its ...
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A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for Their Improvement, General ... Ambrose Blacklock Visualização de excertos - 1846 |
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Página 74 - It is remarkable, however, to observe how surely all these classes of men in a few generations, even without any intermarriage with the Hindoos, assume the deep olive tint, little less dark than a Negro, which seems natural to the climate. The Portuguese natives form unions among themselves alone, or if they can, with Europeans. Yet the Portuguese have, during a three hundred years' residence in India, . become as black as Caffres.
Página 202 - As seen in the mouth, the eruption at first consists of whitish or yellowish blisters varying in size from that of a mustard seed to that of a bean.
Página 51 - the growing manufacture of cloth in Ireland, both by the cheapness of all sorts of necessaries of life, and goodness of materials for making all manner of cloth, doth invite your subjects of England, with their families and servants, to leave their habitations to settle there, to the increase of the woollen manufacture in Ireland, which makes your loyal subjects in this kingdom very...
Página 21 - The filaments of white wool, when cleaned from grease, are semitransparent; their surface in some places is beautifully polished, in others curiously encrusted, and they reflect the rays of light in a very pleasing manner. When viewed by the aid of a powerful achromatic microscope, the central part of the fibre has a singularly glittering appearance. Very irregularly placed minuter filaments are seen branching from the main trunk, like boughs from the principal stem.
Página 46 - But the cruellest of our revenue laws, I will venture to affirm, are mild and gentle, in comparison of some of those which the clamour of our merchants and manufacturers has extorted from the legislature, for the support of their own absurd and oppressive monopolies.
Página 120 - ... should be quite full; the back and loins broad, flat, and straight, from which the ribs must rise with a fine circular arch ; his belly straight ; the quarters long and full, with the mutton quite down to the hough, which should neither stand in nor out ; his twist...
Página 51 - ... the growing manufacture of cloth in Ireland, both by the cheapness of all sorts of necessaries of life and goodness of materials for making all manner of cloth, doth invite your subjects of England, with their families and servants, to leave their habitations to settle there, to the increase of the woollen manufacture in Ireland, which makes your loyal subjects in this kingdom very apprehensive that the further growth of it may greatly prejudice the said manufacture here...
Página 94 - ... of fatness. The flesh of sheep when dressed is equally well known to possess a variety of qualities : some mutton is coarse, dry, and insipid, — a dry sponge affording little or no gravy of any colour. Another sort is somewhat firmer, imparting a light-coloured gravy only. A third plump, short, and palatable, affording a mixture of white and red gravy.
Página 76 - Company,' thus writes in a private journal with which we have been favoured : — ' Both the climate and soil appear by nature intended to produce fine wool, and fine animals too, even from the worst beginnings. The latter seems a paradox. The extensive range that can be afforded to every animal keeps it in good condition ; and, perhaps, the native grasses may have more of good in them, than their appearance indicates : however this may be, the climate clearly has a wonderful effect...