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Page 224 - They have the character of the Arabian breed as decidedly as can be expected, where fifteen-sixteenths of the blood are Arabian ; and they are fine specimens of that breed ; but both in their colour and in the hair of their manes, they have a striking resemblance to the quagga.
Page 483 - The animals become indisposed, and the secretion of milk is much lessened. Inflamed spots now begin to appear on different parts of the hands of the domestics employed in milking, and sometimes on the wrists, which...
Page 224 - Both their manes are black ; that of the filly is short, stiff, and stands upright, and Sir GORE OUSELEY'S stud groom alleged that it never was otherwise. That of the colt is long, but so stiff as to arch upwards, and to hang clear of the sides of the neck ; in which circumstance it resembles that of the hybrid.
Page 356 - ... each per day, others but little. It is dry, and mixed with the steamed food on its being dealt out separately.
Page 213 - It is not always by putting the best male to the best female, that the best produce will be obtained; for, should they both have a tendency to the same defect, although in ever so slight a degree, it will, in general, preponderate so much in the produce as to render it of little value.
Page 21 - British possessions on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south ; and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Pacific Ocean on the west. They originally consisted of thirteen States, but now they amount to upwards of thirty. The AREA of the United States...
Page 428 - In no place is the old adage that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure...
Page 112 - ... 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, and neither fleshy, low hung nor loose; the...
Page 354 - Cooked cornstalks are as soft, and almost as nutritious as green stalks. Cooking is an improvement that pays. Cattle can be fattened at about half the expense upon cooked food, in a warm stable, that others can out doors upon raw food.
Page 356 - During May, my cows are turned out on a rich pasture near the homestead ; towards evening they are again housed for the night, when they are supplied with a mess of the steamed mixture and a little hay each morning and evening. During June, when the grasses are better grown, mown grass is given to them instead of hay, and they are also allowed two feeds of steamed mixture. This treatment is continued till October, when they are again wholly housed.