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Blood, or inherent quality of a breed 649 



Utility and advantages of this in breeding- 

 animals _ ibid. 

 Much regard necessary to all these proper 

 ties in breeding - - ibid. 

 Modes of conducting the business ibid. 

 On what its success depends ibid. 

 Choice of live stock 650 

 Various circumstances to be considered 



in _ ibid. 



Vast advantage of improving live stock, 



shewn . 651 



NEAT CATTLE ... 652 



Breeds of, very numerous ibid. 



No perfect arrangement of ibid. 



Methods that have been attempted in this 



respect - ibid. 



By the horns - note ibid. 



13y the names of the counties or dis 

 tricts where they prevail most ibid. 

 Different breeds described: long-horned 652 

 Middle-horned - - 654 

 Short-horned - - 656 

 Welsh breed . . 637 

 Suffolk dun breed - . ibid. 

 Polled or Galloway breed - ibid. 

 Kyloe breed - 658 

 Fifeshire breed - - 659 

 Aldcrney breed - - ibid. 

 Wild breed - - 660 

 Different breeds proper for different purposes 



of the farmer - - ibid. 



Circumstances to be regarded in this in 

 tention - - ibid. 

 Cow stock . . 662 

 Means of providing good sort of ibid 

 Breeding and rearing young stock ; what 



necessary in . 663 



Farms proper for - ibid. 



Best methods of, in different circum 

 stances .... ibid. 

 Kinds of food most advantageous for ibid. 

 Winter management of - ibid. 

 Manner of foddering of 664 

 Question of being tied up, or loose, con. 



sidered - - ibid. 



Summer pasture for - - ibid. 



Proper age of putting heifers to the bull 665 

 Best season for calving - - 666 



In calf, stock should be well fed - - ibid. 

 Bulls - - ibid. 



Duration of vigour of - ibid. 



Should be well supplied with food in rear 

 ing. . .. jbid. 



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Mr, Bakewell s practice in 66G 



Oxen for labour - 667 



Proper management of, in Herefordshire 



and Devonshire - ibid. 



Time of bringing into work . ibid. 



Best modes of shoeing - 66H 



Age of cattle, how ascertained - ibid. 



Diseases of cattle, and remedies proper for 669 

 Scourings - - ibid. 



Yellows - - ibid. 



Blo;&amp;gt;dy urine - - ibid. 



Foul - - ibid. 



Garget - - ibid. 



Wounds - - ibid. 



SHEEP - - ibid. 



Importance of, in different views ibid. 



Nature of, in different kinds - 670 



Distinguished into classes or breeds in dif 

 ferent ways - - ibid. 

 According to the nature of their woo], the 

 situations in which they are chiefly 

 found, and various other circumstan 

 ces - ibid. 

 Standard form of, in the ram - 671 

 Attention necessary to this and other 

 properties in improvement of sheep, 

 breeds - - 672 

 Different breeds described - ibid. 

 New Leicester or Dishly breed - ibid. 

 Lincolnshire breed - - 673. 

 Tees- water breed - ibid. 

 Romncy-marsh breed - - 674 

 Dartmoor breed . 675 

 Exmoor breed - ibid. 

 Dorsetshire breed ibkl. 

 Herefordshire breed - - 67G 

 South-down breed . 677 

 Norfolk. breed . 678 

 Heath breed ~ - ibid, 

 llenhvick breed . 679 

 Cheviot breed - ibid. 

 Dim-faced breed. 680 

 Shetland breed - - ibid. 

 Merino or Spanish breed - ibid, 

 What breeds most suitable under different 

 circumstances of soil, climate, and 

 situation - 681 

 With the intention of profit from, the 



carcase - . ibid. 



From the wool ibid. 



Mr. Marshall s opinion of different breeds 



in respect to different manufactures ibid; 

 Cireumstanccs to be regarded iu intro 

 duction of new breeds - ibid, . 

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