item: #1 of 9 id: 22520 author: McCombie, William title: Cattle and Cattle-breeders date: None words: 53713 flesch: 80 summary: Although the Galloways are such good cattle to graze--and this goes to prove the truth of my remarks as to the forcing system, the Galloways at Glenapp being wintered out--they are not so easily finished as our Aberdeen and Angus or cross-bred cattle. If a grazier has a number of fields and many cattle, to carry out the treatment of his cattle properly, shifting and fresh grass once in ten or fourteen days should, if possible, be adopted. keywords: 8vo; aberdeen; animal; author; beasts; book; breeder; breeding; bull; calf; captain; cattle; class; country; cow; cows; crown; day; days; disease; edition; fair; farm; father; feeding; good; grass; head; herd; highland; history; james; john; late; little; lot; man; market; men; new; north; price; professor; scotland; second; sir; stock; time; turnips; vols; way; william; years cache: 22520.txt plain text: 22520.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 22771 author: Jennings, Robert title: Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure date: None words: 94211 flesch: 65 summary: If the abortion has been caused by blows or violence, whether from brutality, or the animal's having been teased by other cows in season, or by oxen, the symptoms are more intense. Their milk is influenced like that of other cows, though to a less extent, by the quality and quantity of food; so that in winter, unless the animal is properly attended to, the yield will decrease somewhat, but will rise again as good feed returns. keywords: animal; beef; blood; breed; breeding; calf; calves; cases; cattle; cloth; condition; country; cows; cut; dairy; day; days; disease; extent; farmer; fat; fed; feeding; fine; following; food; form; general; good; grass; hair; half; hand; hay; head; horns; illustration; life; milk; milking; mirror; new; ounce; parts; place; qualities; quality; quantity; size; skin; state; stock; symptoms; system; teeth; time; treatment; udder; use; water; way; years cache: 22771.txt plain text: 22771.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 26903 author: Pope, George W. (George Whitfield) title: Determining the Age of Cattle by the Teeth date: None words: 468 flesch: 65 summary: [Illustration: FIG 1.--Internal face of incisors of the calf.] [Illustration: FIG 2.--Internal face of incisors at 2 years.] keywords: years cache: 26903.txt plain text: 26903.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 27975 author: Vasey, George title: Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. date: None words: 45291 flesch: 68 summary: Cæsar, in his account of the Sylva Hercynia--the Black Forest--thus mentions the Urus, amongst other animals, there found: A third kind [of animals] are those called Uri. If, says Hunter, there are such deviations as of twins being perfect male and female, why should there not be, on the other hand, an hermaphrodite, produced singly, as in other animals? keywords: account; animal; bison; black; bos; buffalo; buffaloes; bull; calf; cattle; colour; common; cow; feet; following; food; form; gaur; gayal; genus; gyall; hair; half; head; herd; horns; illustration; inches; length; milk; months; museum; oxen; present; size; species; state; tail; time; white; wild; years; | | cache: 27975.txt plain text: 27975.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 30310 author: Dickson, Dr. (William) title: Special Report on Diseases of Cattle date: None words: 255399 flesch: 61 summary: Those which are cheapest and most available for animal diseases are ordinary freshly slaked lime or unslaked in powder, chlorid of lime, crude carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate, formaldehyde gas, formalin, and compound cresol solution. It is characterized by the peculiarity among animal diseases that the animals which disseminate the infection are apparently in good health, while those which sicken and die from it do not, as a rule, infect others. keywords: abdomen; acid; acute; affecting; air; animal; anthrax; appearance; bacilli; bladder; blood; body; bones; calf; calves; cases; cattle; cause; cent; chest; cold; condition; cord; course; cow; cows; cut; days; death; description; disease; effect; end; examination; eye; feed; feet; fetus; fever; fig; fluid; following; foot; form; formation; fracture; general; half; hand; head; heart; herd; hind; infection; inflammation; injury; left; limbs; lime; liver; loss; lungs; means; membrane; method; milk; mouth disease; muscles; neck; number; oil; opening; operation; organs; ounces; pain; parts; passages; place; point; poisoning; portion; position; presence; present; pressure; produce; red; result; right; second; size; skin; solution; stage; states; stomach; surface; swelling; symptoms; temperature; ticks; time; tissue; treatment; tuberculosis; tumors; udder; urine; vessels; water; way; womb; wound; | | cache: 30310.txt plain text: 30310.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 33972 author: Florida State Live Stock Association title: Florida: An Ideal Cattle State date: None words: 16741 flesch: 67 summary: Then followed a four days' careful trip over the properties and herd of the Kissimmee Island Cattle Company, where I saw Brahma cattle, Hereford cattle and Shorthorn cattle in various grades, and their herd of Florida cattle bought last year. In the last few years the Brahma cattle have come into prominence, and every investigation that I have made shows that they will undoubtedly prove a great factor in the evolution of Florida cattle. keywords: beef; bermuda; breeding; cattle; conditions; country; development; florida; grass; grasses; land; live; pasture; range; soils; south; state; stock; texas; time; water; years cache: 33972.txt plain text: 33972.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 35448 author: Various title: Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons date: None words: 76845 flesch: 76 summary: =320 Silver Medal,= Calved May 2d, 1857; bred by B. H. ANDREWS, Waterbury, Conn.; the property of WM. =152 Hyacinth,= Calved January 2d, 1862; bred by and the property of ANTHONY BIDERMAN, Wilmington, Del. Sire HECTOR 46; 2d sire Carroll Eclipse 18. Dam LUCERNE (1388) by Godwin (207); 2d dam Edith (679). keywords: 2d dam; 2d sire; 4th; 5th; 6th; 7th; april; bloomfield; bull; calved; conn; county; dam arabella; dam atalanta; dam baltimore; dam beauty; dam daisy; dam duchess; dam fairy; dam flora; dam jane; dam lady; dam lily; dam pocahontas; dam red; dam stella; dam strawberry; dam topsy; dam victoria; dam yarico; fancy; h. h.; hurlbut; john; mass; north; patterson; prince; property; red; rose; sire albert; sire bloomfield; sire comet; sire duke; sire frank; white; winchester; y. sire; young cache: 35448.txt plain text: 35448.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 37041 author: Rodriguez, Carlos title: Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures date: None words: 12820 flesch: 59 summary: A number of investigations in other laboratories have now proven that milk can be used as effectively as the yolk-citrate diluent for freezing bull sperm.[6],[7] Table 5.--Comparison of the Freezability of 4 Semen Samples in Different Extenders ====================================================================== Dilution Pre- Post- Motility Extender rate freezing thawing Survival after (semen: motility motility (percent) storage[E] extender) (percent) (percent) (percent) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yolk-citrate 1:1 60 49 82 46 1:10 53 45 85 36 Yolk-saline 1:1 57 29 51 28 1:10 60 31 52 24 Yolk-phosphate 1:1 55 33 64 25 1:10 60 43 72 25 Whole milk 1:1 60 40 67 35 1:10 60 35 58 16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table 16.--Effect of Freezing Procedures on Oxygen Utilization of Bull Sperm in Yolk-Citrate Extender (Average of 5 ejaculates) ===================================================================== Microliters of oxygen Semen sample tested utilized per 10^{8} sperm -------------------------- First hour Second hour --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fresh diluted semen 10.3 8.1 Fresh diluted semen glycerol tipped in at end of first hour 9.7[L] 12.9[L] Aged 20 to 24 hours at 5° C. 11.2 8.3 Aged 20 to 24 hours at 5° C. glycerol tipped in at end of first hour 11.8[L] 12.9[L] After 20 hours equilibration with glycerol 11.7[L] 7.8[L] After freezing and thawing 9.7 6.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- keywords: = =; = citrate; bull =; freezing; glycerol; percent; rate =; semen =; sperm; | =; ° c. cache: 37041.txt plain text: 37041.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 39850 author: Doubleday, Russell title: Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West date: None words: 74900 flesch: 84 summary: John kept his head and made every blow tell, while Jake in his anger forgot all he knew and defended himself so poorly that his opponent soon satisfied him he was the better man. John kept stamping frantically, and in an instant Billy had joined him and was also vigorously engaged in crushing out the dreaded flames. keywords: baldy; ben; big; boys; brother; bunch; camp; cattle; country; cow; day; door; eyes; face; father; fire; good; gray; half; hand; head; home; horse; indian; jerry; john; left; life; look; man; men; miles; morning; new; night; open; outfit; place; river; rope; round; saddle; saw; snow; thought; time; town; trail; wagon; way; work; worth; young cache: 39850.txt plain text: 39850.txt