Cattle and Cattle-breedersWilliam Blackwood, 1869 - 135 páginas |
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... calves have to be sold , and even old cattle only thrive for a cer- tain length of time . Some farms are apt to produce cancer on the throat and side of the head . I pay little attention to this , as change of air cures the complaint ...
... calves have to be sold , and even old cattle only thrive for a cer- tain length of time . Some farms are apt to produce cancer on the throat and side of the head . I pay little attention to this , as change of air cures the complaint ...
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... calf flesh . If you do so by starving the animal at any time of his growth , you lose the cream - the cover- ing of flesh so much prized by all our best retail butchers . Where do all the scraggy , bad - fleshed beasts come from that we ...
... calf flesh . If you do so by starving the animal at any time of his growth , you lose the cream - the cover- ing of flesh so much prized by all our best retail butchers . Where do all the scraggy , bad - fleshed beasts come from that we ...
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... calf abort , and rather than give calving cows such turnips I would order them straw and water . Fresh Swedish turnips are indispensable to feeding cattle during the winter . It is a sorrowful sight to see a gang of men with picks ...
... calf abort , and rather than give calving cows such turnips I would order them straw and water . Fresh Swedish turnips are indispensable to feeding cattle during the winter . It is a sorrowful sight to see a gang of men with picks ...
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... Calves dropped early should go to the fat market at the age of two years . A word as to show bullocks . I believe they are the most unprofitable speculation an agriculturist can interfere with . To keep a show bullock as he ought to be ...
... Calves dropped early should go to the fat market at the age of two years . A word as to show bullocks . I believe they are the most unprofitable speculation an agriculturist can interfere with . To keep a show bullock as he ought to be ...
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... calves after weaning , and not allowing them to lose the calf - flesh , which , if lost , can never be regained . But the indomitable perseverance of the farmers in selecting good and weeding out inferior animals is , I think , the main ...
... calves after weaning , and not allowing them to lose the calf - flesh , which , if lost , can never be regained . But the indomitable perseverance of the farmers in selecting good and weeding out inferior animals is , I think , the main ...
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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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