Cattle, Sheep, and Deer: (containing Also Remarks on the Game Laws and Grouse Moors)Steel & Jones, 1872 - 745 páginas |
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... Stag - Deer in the Rutting Season - Habits of the Deer - Character- istics of the Fallow Deer - Habits of the Fallow Deer - Composition of Deer Parks - Animals in a State of Nature - Habits of the Moose -Characteristics of the Roe Deer ...
... Stag - Deer in the Rutting Season - Habits of the Deer - Character- istics of the Fallow Deer - Habits of the Fallow Deer - Composition of Deer Parks - Animals in a State of Nature - Habits of the Moose -Characteristics of the Roe Deer ...
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... stags and hinds . On the other hand , we find that 9,500 acres of these counties carry 3,366,000 sheep ; and taking three years as the average age of all sheep , there result 156,000 Cheviots and blackfaced that could be reared and ...
... stags and hinds . On the other hand , we find that 9,500 acres of these counties carry 3,366,000 sheep ; and taking three years as the average age of all sheep , there result 156,000 Cheviots and blackfaced that could be reared and ...
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... stags and hinds , 140 lbs . each , at 6d . £ 30,800 8,800 stags ' and hinds ' skins at 3s . 6d . 1,540 8,800 stags ' and hinds ' heads , averag- ing 12s . 5,280 37,620 £ 343,380 " Deer versus Sheep " then shows a gain of £ 16,500 ...
... stags and hinds , 140 lbs . each , at 6d . £ 30,800 8,800 stags ' and hinds ' skins at 3s . 6d . 1,540 8,800 stags ' and hinds ' heads , averag- ing 12s . 5,280 37,620 £ 343,380 " Deer versus Sheep " then shows a gain of £ 16,500 ...
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... stag , or sees him bound over the lone glade , the eagle hover aloft , and the strong - winged falcon still in view ; as he listens to the hollow whistling of the winds , the plaint of rills , the murmur of waterfall , the rustling of ...
... stag , or sees him bound over the lone glade , the eagle hover aloft , and the strong - winged falcon still in view ; as he listens to the hollow whistling of the winds , the plaint of rills , the murmur of waterfall , the rustling of ...
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... stag ; and the sixth , a hart . The female is called , the first year , a calf ; the second , a hearse ; and the third , a hind . In Britain the stag has become scarcer than it formerly was ; but , in the Highlands of Scot- land herds ...
... stag ; and the sixth , a hart . The female is called , the first year , a calf ; the second , a hearse ; and the third , a hind . In Britain the stag has become scarcer than it formerly was ; but , in the Highlands of Scot- land herds ...
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Aberdeenshire acre Alderney animals average Ayrshire beast blackfaced blackfaced sheep bone breed BREED OF CATTLE breeders bull butter Caithness calf calves carcase cheese Cheviot churn climate coarse colour Cotswolds covered cows cream crops cross curd dairy deer Devon districts England ewes excellent farmer farms fatten favour feeding fleece flesh flesh-forming flock Galloway grass grazier grazing ground hair hardy head heifer herd Hereford Highland cattle horns improved kyloes lambs land legs Leicester long-horns manure meat milk milkers mutton native breed nature pasture Poa nemoralis pounds prize produce profitable proportion quarts rennet ribs Ross-shire salt Scotland season sheep short-horn shoulders Smithfield Club soil Southdown Southdown sheep stag Stilton cheese straw Sussex Teeswater turnips valuable weather week weight West Highlanders whey winter wool yield Yorkshire
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