PACTS FOR FARMERS. THE KEEP OF A. COW. ( Agricultural Gazette )
bitter water from the ipout of » teapot, and he could hardly be blamed if he were deficient in tpatriotitm, for iuoh a. country m he had experienced would Iwrdly be worth fighting for.
Sheep Brkkdino in Akibicv. — The Jlfcusachusettt Ploughman says of the late New England fair :— The mosr remarkable animals on the ground, aa showing what scientific breeding can accomplish, are the Vermont marmoa, which from a smooth unruffled skin,, or nearly so (by breeding with reference to the increase oi the wool-growing surface), have a very loose skin, ruffled all orer the body, and to such an extent has this ruffling been carried, in. connection with covering every put of the sheep with tine wool, except the eyes and hoou, that the skin of one of these bucks is now nearly as large as the skin of three such sheep with tight, smooth skins ; hence fleeces of from, twenty to twenty-eight pounds are realised where formerly, one-half the weight was not clipped.
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Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 220, 7 October 1873, Page 2
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174PACTS FOR FARMERS. THE KEEP OF A. COW. (Agricultural Gazette) Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 220, 7 October 1873, Page 2
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