Cattle and Cattle-breedersWilliam Blackwood, 1869 - 135 páginas |
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... fairs , with the servants , and shared their diet . I cut two harvests , and during the season took charge of the cattle ... fair when a very young man , giving me authority to buy , and money to pay for , half - a - dozen beasts . I ...
... fairs , with the servants , and shared their diet . I cut two harvests , and during the season took charge of the cattle ... fair when a very young man , giving me authority to buy , and money to pay for , half - a - dozen beasts . I ...
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... Fair . I put up the number and the size he wanted , and he bought them from me and my father for many years , always choosing middle - sized three and four year olds , and never going beyond £ 11 per head . The highest figure at that ...
... Fair . I put up the number and the size he wanted , and he bought them from me and my father for many years , always choosing middle - sized three and four year olds , and never going beyond £ 11 per head . The highest figure at that ...
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... Fair for large cattle . I have doubled stirks at Hallow Fair , buying them at from £ 2 to £ 4 , and , to use an Aberdeen expression , turning them heels over heads . But I never could make a shilling of profit out of large cattle . At ...
... Fair for large cattle . I have doubled stirks at Hallow Fair , buying them at from £ 2 to £ 4 , and , to use an Aberdeen expression , turning them heels over heads . But I never could make a shilling of profit out of large cattle . At ...
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... fair one for the seller ; but the difference will not be so glaring , as he cannot know the beasts as the dealer does . I am speaking al- ways of a fair cut as sold from the sixty . It is not easy to explain in writing how this division ...
... fair one for the seller ; but the difference will not be so glaring , as he cannot know the beasts as the dealer does . I am speaking al- ways of a fair cut as sold from the sixty . It is not easy to explain in writing how this division ...
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... Fair of New Deer we nearly came to grief two or three years in succession ; it is held in the end of October . There was a decent man , Abel , and his wife , who lived in Inverurie , and attended all the fairs . Their conveyance was a ...
... Fair of New Deer we nearly came to grief two or three years in succession ; it is held in the end of October . There was a decent man , Abel , and his wife , who lived in Inverurie , and attended all the fairs . Their conveyance was a ...
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a-head Aberdeen and Angus Aberdeenshire Agricultural ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON Alford allowed Angus cattle animal beasts Bethelnie bought bred breeding stock bullock butchers buyer byre cake and corn calf calves Captain Barclay Crown 8vo dead meat dealer disease drove East Lothian Edinburgh Engravings Falkirk farm father Fcap feeder female gained GEOLOGY GEORGE GEORGE ELIOT give grass grazed grazier Haddoch Half-bound Halliburton Hallow Fair heifers HENRY STEPHENS herd Highland Society's show HISTORY horses Illustrations Innes J. G. Lockhart James jobber JOHN JOHN HILL BURTON judge late Lord lot of cattle M'Combie Maps Messrs milk Milner Morayshire never owner POEMS polled cattle Post 8vo prize Scotland Scott SCOTT BURN Second Edition seen sent shorthorns show-yard sold store cattle straw strawyard Thom Tillyfour took turnips University of Edinburgh veterinary surgeon vols weather weeks William Williamson winter
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