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Report of the Secretary, Հատորներ 12-13 Michigan. State Board of Agriculture Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1875 |
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A. N. Prentiss acre advantages Agricultural College Agricultural Society Alderney animals Apples average Ayrshire cattle Ayrshire cows beef Berkshire better blood Boarding Hall breed broadcast sowing bushels bushels per acre C. A. Kenaston cattle cents Charles Rich cheese clover corn County.-"The crop cultivation Devon diarrhoea disease drill and broadcast drilled wheat England ergot experiments farm farmers fatten favorable feeding fleece freezing GENESEE COUNTY grain ground harrow Hessian fly horses important improvement John Gamgee KALAMAZOO COUNTY kinds labor land MACOMB COUNTY manure Massachusetts Merino Michigan Miles milk nearly Oscar Clute OTTAWA COUNTY plant pleuro-pneumonia ploughing plow pork portion pounds produced profitable pulverized quantity R. C. Kedzie regard roots S. S. Rockwell Salary SANFORD HOWARD says season Secretary seed sheep Short-horns soil sold sown broadcast swine T. C. Abbot tion varieties various weight winter wheat wool yield
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Էջ 136 - Dunlop stock," so-called, which appears to have been possessed by a distinguished family by the name of Dunlop, in the Cunningham district of Ayrshire, as early as 1780. This stock was derived, at least in part, from animals imported from Holland.
Էջ 138 - Rawlin also says, in reference to the Ayrshire breed : " It is said to be a mixture by bulls brought from the Island of Alderney with their own, or the old race of cows." Martin says : " At some period or other there has evidently been a cross with the Durham or Holderness, and perhaps, also, with the Alderney breed.
Էջ 249 - This is for the record of the direction from which the wind is blowing as indicated by a vane, and its force by estimation. The direction is entered in eight points of the compass : N., NE, E., SE, S., SW, W., NW The force is to be estimated and registered by figures from 1 to 10, as in the first column of the following table.
Էջ 173 - In spite of all precautions, the old points will come out, and occasionally spoil a very promising foal, even at the third or fourth generation. Suffolk pigs are perhaps, on the whole, the most profitable breed in England. They are well-shaped, short-legged, mostly white, with short upright ears, and the porkers of this breed are excellent. It may be distinguished from the Essex breed by being better covered with hair, and from the Norfolk by having smaller ears set more nearly together. It...
Էջ 137 - Mrs. Dunlop, it will be recollected, was a special friend and correspondent of the poet. As a further explanation of the preference given by Burns for the " west country cows," it may be mentioned that the writer, when visiting Scotland for the purchase of Ayrshire cattle in the year 1858, had several interviews with the poet's sister, the late Mrs. Begg, of Ayr, in one of which she stated that licr brother, during his occupancy of the farm of Ellisland, near Dumfries, "kept r a dairy and made considerable...
Էջ 139 - Hind quarters long, broad, and straight: hook bones wide apart, and not overlaid with fat; thighs deep and broad; tail long, slender, and set on level with the back '. 8 6.
Էջ 141 - These principles have been followed to a considerable extent by the leading breeders of Ayrshires, in Scotland. Hence they claim a high rank for the breed in reference to general Tisefulness.
Էջ 139 - ... capacious and extending well forward ; hinder part broad and firmly attached to the body; the sole or under surface nearly level; the teats from two to two and...
Էջ 173 - stands first;" and he describes the animal as " rather small,, but compact, short.
Էջ 139 - Head, short; forehead, wide; nose, fine, between the muzzle and eyes; muzzle, moderately large; eyes, full and lively; horns, wide set on, inclining upwards and curving slightly inwards; neck, long and straight from the head to the top of the shoulder, free from loose skin on the under side, fine at its junction with the head, and the muscles symmetrically enlarging towards the shoulders; shoulders, thin at the top; brisket, light; the whole fore-quarters thin in front, and gradually increasing in...