Edinburgh veterinary review and annals of comparative pathology. [Continued as] The Veterinary review and stockowners' journal, ed. by J. Gamgee. New |
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... breeding and grazing communities presents to us rather a wide field for discussing a sub- ject fraught with paramount importance , not only to the agricultural body , but likewise to the great consuming classes of the whole country . In ...
... breeding and grazing communities presents to us rather a wide field for discussing a sub- ject fraught with paramount importance , not only to the agricultural body , but likewise to the great consuming classes of the whole country . In ...
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... breeds under any circumstances ; that lairs and slaughter - houses ought to be erected near the landing wharfs in London ; and that severe penalties should be inflicted upon those who exhibit , or dispose of imported stock in open ...
... breeds under any circumstances ; that lairs and slaughter - houses ought to be erected near the landing wharfs in London ; and that severe penalties should be inflicted upon those who exhibit , or dispose of imported stock in open ...
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... breeding and cattle - rear- ing country . I must premise , moreover , that I have paid Dublin this second visit , under a conviction that the intelligence of the age , our great necessities , and the nature of the frightful losses ...
... breeding and cattle - rear- ing country . I must premise , moreover , that I have paid Dublin this second visit , under a conviction that the intelligence of the age , our great necessities , and the nature of the frightful losses ...
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... breeding districts which are exporting for the supply of those who fatten for the butcher , but in the districts ... bred elsewhere . The animals have been bought up by dealers , sold and resold , and no sooner are they in the feeders ...
... breeding districts which are exporting for the supply of those who fatten for the butcher , but in the districts ... bred elsewhere . The animals have been bought up by dealers , sold and resold , and no sooner are they in the feeders ...
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... breeding districts or breeding farms , which have never been visited by the disorder , or which have suffered but once , and that owing to the purchase of dis- eased stock . I have had interesting interviews with some of the most ...
... breeding districts or breeding farms , which have never been visited by the disorder , or which have suffered but once , and that owing to the purchase of dis- eased stock . I have had interesting interviews with some of the most ...
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