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Автор: W.C.L.Martin
Год: 2008
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 144
ISBN: 9781443709408
Cattle: Their History And Various Breeds; To Which Is Added The Dairy, By W.C.L. Martin. CHAPTER I. know the various orders of mammnlia, from which man has reclaimed and domesticated certain species- species, the possession of which, in a state of subjection and dependence, contribute essentially to his welfare-that of the Ruminatia, or ruminating animals, affords him the greatest number and those not of the lowest importance. To this order belong the camel, the llama and its allies, the different species of the ox, the sheep, and the goat. Since the remotest periods of history, the ox and the sheep have been regarded in the light of property nor is their intrest value less appreciated after a lapse of ages. Who does not know how intimately the wellbeing of a nation is connected with its agrarian produce, whether animal or vegetable and how closely the interests of commerce and of agriculture are inter-blended together 1 It has been said by same one, that he who makes two stalks...
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Lawrence DrewCatalogue of Clydesdale horses and Ayshire cattle : the property of Mr. Lawrence Drew : to be sold by auction at Merryton home farm, near Hamilton, on Tuesday, 8th April, 1879