Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . tter of taste,for its correlations are hardly guessed at; and from almost pure black,through the reds to almostpure white, are colors found on the best spots on the skin, barely perceptible through the hair, often occuron the best cattle. Strawl)erry blotched and red and white are perhapsthe more common colors. A
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . tter of taste,for its correlations are hardly guessed at; and from almost pure black,through the reds to almostpure white, are colors found on the best spots on the skin, barely perceptible through the hair, often occuron the best cattle. Strawl)erry blotched and red and white are perhapsthe more common colors. A self-colored animal, or a roan, or animalwith white on the ears, the writer has never yet seen among the Ayr-shires in Scotland or in this country, when the pedigree was unques-tionable. The carriage should be light and active, the head well up, and the hindlegs should not cross in walking. The condition should be neither fatnor lean, but that average which a good cow holds when in good flesh atcalving, liberally fed while in milk. In selecting Ayrshires, if these points are attended to, and if thebreeder has carefully studied what we have previously Avritten m relationto raising cattle in general, there will be no ditiiculty about the selectionof superior DRINKING APPARATUS FOR CALVES RUBBER TEAT, CHAPTER CATTLE—THE DUTCH BREEDS. I. ANTIQUITY OF DUTCH CATTLE AS A DISTINCT RACE. II. FRIESIAN AND CATTLE. HI. DUTCH CATTLE OLDER THAN THOSE OK HOLSTEIN. IV. ESlAB- LISHMLNT OF REGULAR CATTLE MARKETS. V. IMPORTATION OF DANISH CATTLE IN:0 FRIESLAND. VI. facts about dutch CATTLE. VII. VARIETIES DES- CijiBED. VIII. RACES OF DUTCH CATTLE. IX. DR. SEORGE MAVS TESTI-MONY. X. BREEDS OF NORTH AND SOUTH HOLLAND AND WEST FRIESLAND. XI. THElltCOLOR AND FORM. XII. YIELDS OF MI LK. XIII. FEEDING QUAL^ ITIKS. XIV. DUTCH CATTLE AN ARTIFICIAL BREED. XV. THE EARLIEST IMI-OIITATIONS. XVI. THE LEROY IMPORTATION. XVII. THE CHENERY IM-PORTATION. XVIII. WHAT PROF. ROBERTS SA
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