The Cow: Dairy Husbandry and Cattle BreedingOrr, 1851 - 130 էջ |
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Aberdeenshire acid acres Alderney allowed animal annatto Ayrshire cattle Ayrshire cow beef boiling breed of cattle breeder bull butter cake calf calves casein cheese Cheshire Chillingham churning cold colour Common turnips covered cow-house cream cross curd DAIRY SYSTEM dairyman Devons Dunlop cheese fattening fatty matter favourable feeding fermentation fresh gallons gentle give given grass grazier grazing heat heifers hence herd Hereford horns improved instance keep kind lactic acid land large towns Leicestershire linseed London male manure mass meal milk cows milker mixture mode Mucilage necessary pasture peculiar placed pounds produce qualities quantity quarts race rennet requires rich salt scalding selected short-horn sire skim milk skin soil sometimes sour stall Stilton cheese stone summer supply taken temperature tendency thin turnips udder washed whey whole wild winter winter tares wurzel Yorkshire cow
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Էջ 26 - A straight and flat back, with never a hump ; She's wide in her hips, and calm in her eyes. She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her thighs. She's light in her neck, and small in her tail. She's wide in her breast, and good at the pail. She's fine in her bone, and silky of skin. She's a grazier's without, and a butcher's...
Էջ 37 - ... 2. and 3. ; and we have straight parallel lines from the sides of the shoulders, along the outmost points of the ribs, to the sides of the hind quarters ; and we have these lines connected at their ends by others of shorter and equal length, across the end of the rump and the top of the shoulder, thus constituting the rectangular form of the ox when viewed from above down upon the back, as represented by fig. 4.
Էջ 106 - It ought to be prepared twelve hours >efore using; when, the milk being boiled, it should io added till the mixture is reduced to a proper heat." We believe our principle of extraneous food for calves alone is by far the best, both for the sustainng of the animals and the soil in condition; and...
Էջ 37 - Fig. 1; we have, also, the level loin across the hook bones, and the level top of the shoulder across the ox, and perpendicular lines down the hind and fore legs on both sides, these constituting the square form, when the ox is viewed before and behind, as represented in Figs.
Էջ 20 - ... clear, crooked, and their roots at considerable distance from each other ; neck long and slender, tapering towards the head, with no loose skin below ; shoulders thin ; fore-quarters light ; hind-quarters large ; back straight, broad behind, the joints rather loose and open; carcase deep, and pelvis capacious, and wide over the hips, with round fleshy buttocks. Tail long and small; legs small and short, with firm joints; udder capacious, broad and square, stretching forward, ORIGIN OF THE AYRSHIRE...
Էջ 26 - s fine in her shoulders and thin in her thighs. She 's light in her neck and small in her tail ; She 's wide at her breast and good at the pail ; She 's fine in her bone and silky of skin ; She 'sa grazier without and a butcher within.
Էջ 19 - Head small, but rather long and narrow at the muzzle ; the eye small, but smart and lively ; the horns small, clear, crooked, and their roots at considerable distance from each other; neck long and slender, tapering towards the head, with no loose skin below...
Էջ 23 - Breed, on male and female sides, reputed for producing rich and yellow butter ... 4 II. Head small, fine and tapering ; eye full and lively; muzzle fine and encircled with white; horns polished and a little crumpled, tipped with black; ears small, of an orange color within . 8 III.
Էջ 14 - To be convinced of the truth of this fact, we need only look at the phenomena which surround us on every side. In all our stocks of domesticated animals, we see profuse and infinite variety, and in the races of wild animals, from which they originally descended, we find an uniform colour and figure for the most part to prevail. Domestication is to animals what cultivation is to vegetables, and the former probably differs from the natural state of the one class of beings in the same circumstances,...
Էջ 20 - ... large and prominent ; teats short, all pointing outwards, and at considerable distance from each other , skin thin and loose ; hair soft and woolly ; the head, bones, horns, and all parts of least value, small ; and the general figure compact and well proportioned.