Cattle, Sheep, and Deer: (containing Also Remarks on the Game Laws and Grouse Moors)Steel & Jones, 1872 - 745 páginas |
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... bull and cow are probably of Asiatic origin . In those countries where they are now found in a wild state , they are evidently descended from domestic animals which have been let loose , or have strayed from the habitations of man . The ...
... bull and cow are probably of Asiatic origin . In those countries where they are now found in a wild state , they are evidently descended from domestic animals which have been let loose , or have strayed from the habitations of man . The ...
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... bull should be of the same kind , and if related , only in a remote degree ; nor should he have been brought up on a pasturage differing from that of the cow , or under the influ- ences of a different climate . He should not only ...
... bull should be of the same kind , and if related , only in a remote degree ; nor should he have been brought up on a pasturage differing from that of the cow , or under the influ- ences of a different climate . He should not only ...
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... bull may be introduced that is a great getter of bull calves , yet the change may not be to the advantage of the owner , as the female calves will not be bred of so high an order . fessor Thury , of Geneva , has written a very inte ...
... bull may be introduced that is a great getter of bull calves , yet the change may not be to the advantage of the owner , as the female calves will not be bred of so high an order . fessor Thury , of Geneva , has written a very inte ...
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... bull preserves itself for a time sufficiently long in the organs of the cow . In the experiments made in Switzerland we have taken the cow at the first certain signs of heating , for the purpose of obtaining heifers , and at the ...
... bull preserves itself for a time sufficiently long in the organs of the cow . In the experiments made in Switzerland we have taken the cow at the first certain signs of heating , for the purpose of obtaining heifers , and at the ...
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... bull as he can , and if he be a good one of his kind , to use him indiscrimi- nately with all his cows ; and when by this proceed- ing , which ought to be persisted in , his stock has , with an occasional change of bull , become suffi ...
... bull as he can , and if he be a good one of his kind , to use him indiscrimi- nately with all his cows ; and when by this proceed- ing , which ought to be persisted in , his stock has , with an occasional change of bull , become suffi ...
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