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Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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ater may, with pro-priety, be ascribed to a spirit of improvement which had some time man-ifested itself among the breeders on the banks of the Tees, whose laud-able efforts were well seconded by the very superior land in the vicinityof that river. No doubt can be entertained that they proceeded on ajudicious system of crossing with other breeds, because it was utterly im-possible to raise such a stock as the Teeswater from pure Short-Hornblood. One cross to which they referred was, in all probability, thewhite wild breed ; and if tliis conjecture be well-founded, it will be ap-parent whence the Short-Horns derived a color soprevalent among thorn. 1: is also asserted that, about the period in question. Sir William St.Quinim, of Scampston, imported bulls and cows from Holland, whichwers crossed with the stock of the country. It would tend to littleadvantage to conjecture as to what other breeds were resorted to, if any ? EAKLY HISTORY AND TYPICAL BREEDS OF CATTLE. 607 o - 2 Is a ►^ K
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60S CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOJK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. this much is certain, that great improvement \vt\!& soon manifested, and ?valuable variety established. An illustration of tliis valuable breed, as it was known fifty years ago,is given on page 539. It is to be regretted that the fine milking quali-ties of their descendants should have been almost entirely bred out, andare now only found occasionally, through heredity, and this in but a veryfew families. IX. Irisli Cattle. The cattle of Ireland are of two distinctive breeds, theLong-Homs andthe Middle-Horns. Whence the Long-Horns came seems not to beknown, since ancient records are silent upon the subject. Both inEngland and Ireland they can be traced far back. By some excellentauthorities it is maintained that the Long-Horns originated in Ireland;but in Lancashire, England, also, long-horned cattle have existed since aremote antiquity. The Irish Middle-Horns seem to have been an original breed, sincethey were found in all th

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