A General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and the Swine: Comprehending Their Breeding, Management, Improvement, and Diseases...Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1809 - 618 oldal |
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16. oldal
... allow the common exception of white and light colours , on the score of tenderness . The old prognostics drawn from colour were truly nonsensical . I have frequently seen black cows the largest milkers , and have at this time before my ...
... allow the common exception of white and light colours , on the score of tenderness . The old prognostics drawn from colour were truly nonsensical . I have frequently seen black cows the largest milkers , and have at this time before my ...
29. oldal
... allowed . Tal- low , or internal fat , which denotes the ripeness of the animal , results from mature age , length of keep , and , probably , from size of bone and depth of carcase . I have yet seen South Down sheep well tallowed within ...
... allowed . Tal- low , or internal fat , which denotes the ripeness of the animal , results from mature age , length of keep , and , probably , from size of bone and depth of carcase . I have yet seen South Down sheep well tallowed within ...
65. oldal
... allowed the best , it must also be acknowledged the most expensive meat . We may go farther , and challenge for high quality , with our Devon beef against the smallest from the Highlands , or isles of Scotland . Some connoisseurs , on ...
... allowed the best , it must also be acknowledged the most expensive meat . We may go farther , and challenge for high quality , with our Devon beef against the smallest from the Highlands , or isles of Scotland . Some connoisseurs , on ...
67. oldal
... allowing seven shillings for risk , was calculated at £ 2. 3s . 8d . the market worth of which was only from £ .2 . 2s . to £ .3 . No wonder that the farmers at length became weary of such a system , and eager to make trial of sheep in ...
... allowing seven shillings for risk , was calculated at £ 2. 3s . 8d . the market worth of which was only from £ .2 . 2s . to £ .3 . No wonder that the farmers at length became weary of such a system , and eager to make trial of sheep in ...
73. oldal
... allow no person to touch their calves , without at- tacking them with impetuous ferocity . " When a calf is intended to be castrated , the park- keeper marks the place where it is hid , and , when the herd are at a distance , takes an ...
... allow no person to touch their calves , without at- tacking them with impetuous ferocity . " When a calf is intended to be castrated , the park- keeper marks the place where it is hid , and , when the herd are at a distance , takes an ...
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A General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and the Swine ... John Lawrence Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2008 |
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62. oldal - At the first appearance of any person, they set off in full gallop ; and, at the distance of two or three hundred yards, make a wheel round, and come boldly up again, tossing their heads in a menacing manner ; on a sudden, they make a full stop, at the distance of forty or fifty yards, looking wildly at the object of their surprise ; but upon the least motion being made they all again turn round, and fly off...
63. oldal - ... its head, it got up, pawed two or three times like an old bull, bellowed very loud, retired a few steps, and bolted at his legs with all its force; it then began to paw again, bellowed, stepped back, and bolted as before; but knowing its intention, and stepping...
61. oldal - Their colour is invariably of a creamy white; muzzle black; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the outside, from the tips downwards, red; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long.
62. oldal - The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed upon a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came...
61. oldal - Their colour is invariably white, muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the outside from the tip, downwards, red ; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards ; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half, or two inches long...
63. oldal - ... though it made several efforts : but it had done enough •, the whole herd were alarmed, and coming to its rescue, obliged him to retire ; for the dams will allow no person to touch their calves, without attacking them with impetuous ferocity.* When any one happens to be wounded, or is grown weak and feeble through age or sickness, the rest of the herd set upon it, and gore it to death.
63. oldal - If any person come near the calves, they clap their heads close to the ground, and lie like a hare in form to hide themselves. This is a proof of their native wildness, and is corroborated by the following...
63. oldal - ... a few steps, and bolted at his legs with all its force ; it then began to paw again, bellowed, stepped back, and bolted as before ; but knowing its intention, and stepping aside, it missed him, fell, and was so very weak that it could not rise, though it made several efforts. But it had done enough, the whole herd were alarmed, and coming to ВОУГОЖ.
27. oldal - These cattle have generally, for a century past, commanded the best price at Smithfield; but of late years, the buyers there have shrewdly remarked, that although blood and fine form are very pleasing to the eye of the gentleman breeder, yet substance and weight are, and ever must be, the grand objects at market.
251. oldal - ... should be quite full; the back and loins broad, flat, and straight, from which the ribs must rise with a fine circular arch ; his belly straight, the quarters long and full, with the mutton quite down to the hough, which should neither stand in nor out ; his twist...