Live stock - a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying - being (14591330290)
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Identifier: livestockcyclope00bake (find matches)
Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries
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ry district of England, the breed ofcattle degenerated, or lost its original character; it consisted of animalsbrought from every neighboring and some remote districts, mingled inevery possible variety, yet conforming itself to the soil and the climate. Observations will convince us that the cattle in Devonshire, Sussex,Wales and Scotland, are essentially the same. They are middle-horned;not extraordinary milkers, and remarkable for the quality rather than thequantity of their milk; active at work, and with an unequaled aptitudeto fatten. They have all the characters of the same breed, changed bysoil, climate, and time, yet little changed by man. We may almost tracethe color, namely, the red of the Devon, the Sussex, and the Hereford;and where the black alone are now found, the memory of the red pre-vails. Every one who has compared the Devon cattle with the wild breedof Chatelherault park, or Chillingham castle, has been struck with the EARLY HISTORY AND TYPICAL BREEDS OF CATTLE. 617
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618 CYCLOrEDIA OF LIVE STOfK AND ro>frLETE STOCK DOCTOR.