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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
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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nd long; they are black, brindled and black, or brindledwith white faces. Some are finer in the bone, and finer in the neck, witaa good eye, a sharp muzzle, and great activity. They are exceedinglyLardy; they live through the winter, and sometimes fatten, on theirnative mountains and moors ; and when removed to a better climate andsoil, they fatten with all the rapidity of the aboriginal cattle of the High-lands and Wales. They are generally very good milkers, and many ofthem are excellent. The cow of Kerry is said to be a favorable sped*men of them. X. Scotch and Highland Cattle. Scotland has always been celebrated for its cattle, and for none morethan its polled or hornless cattle. The Highland breeds are of greatantiquity. The most celebrated of the polled breeds are the Galloways,originally said to have been middle-horned cattle. They are widely dis-seminated in England and the United States, and in their improvedforms are regarded with much favor. Many sub-families are now known.
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EARLY HISTORY AND TYPICAL BREEDS OF CATTLE. 609 They are described as having been straight and broad in the back, andnearly level from the head to the rump ; round in the ribs, and also,between,the shoulders and ribs, and the ribs and loins. The loins werebroad, and without large projecting hip (hook) bones. In the earlypart of the century they were described b- the Eev. Mr. Smith, author ofa Survey of Galloway, as being short the leg, and moderately fine inthe shank bones—the happy medium preserved in the leg, which secureshardihood and disposition to fatten. With the sam^ cleanness and short-ness of shanks, there was no breed so large and muscular above the knee.Clean, not fine and slender, but well proportioned in the neck and chaps;broad shoulders, deep chest, and close, compact form. The neck of theGalloway bull was, and still is, thick almost to a fault. The head ratherheavy ; the eyes not prominent, and the ears large, rough, and full of longhairs on the inside. The Galloway

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