Animals-Domestic
(1) Origin of the Sheep;--(2) The Argali of Siberia and Mouflon of Sardinia;--(3) The Mouflon of America;--(4) The Mouflon of Africa;--(5) British Breeds;--(6) The Lincolnshire;--(7) The Teeswater;--(8) The Dishley or New Leicester;--(9) The Devonshire Nots;--(10) The Dorsetsh...
(119.) There is no department in the management of sheep so little understood as the nature and treatment of their diseases. Every part of the sheep itself has been used, at one...
11. CHAPTER IV.(63.) This subject requires for its due consideration some slight attainments in anatomy and physiology, but as such attainments, slight though they may be, are as rarely met wi...
10. CHAPTER III.(37.) _Origin of the Wool Trade._--Wool, since Eden closed its gates on our progenitors has been a current coin, an important material, on which has been employed the skill and...
12. CHAPTER V.(95.) Those who have attended to the subject are well aware, that the profitable management of livestock is the most difficult department in the business of a farm. So much depe...
8. CHAPTER I.(1.) _Origin of the Sheep._--As the origin of our domesticated animals has afforded scope for much curious speculation, so none have attracted a greater degree of attention in t...
13. CHAPTER VI.(104.) Sheep being about as liable as other animals to a variety of accidents, it is necessary that the shepherd should possess a competent knowledge of the means which art affo...
9. CHAPTER II.(24.) _Wool-Bearing Animals._--In most dictionaries wool is defined as the fleece of sheep, as if, in fact they were the only animals which yield it, than which nothing can be m...
7. CHAPTER VII.(119) Introductory remarks;--(120) Cautions in Prescribing;--(121) Classification of Diseases;--(122) Blown or Blast;--(123) Treatment of Blown;--(124) Braxy or Sickness;--(125)...
3. CHAPTER III.(37) Origin of the Wool Trade;--(38) Invention of Weaving;--(39) Early progress of the Wool Trade;--(40) Introduction of Weaving into Britain;--(41) Importance of the British Wo...
4. CHAPTER IV.(63) Introductory remarks;--(64) Early Improvers of the Sheep;--(65) Modern Breeders and Improvements;--(66) Varieties among Animals, how induced;--(67) Varieties induced by tem...
1. CHAPTER I.(1) Origin of the Sheep;--(2) The Argali of Siberia and Mouflon of Sardinia;--(3) The Mouflon of America;--(4) The Mouflon of Africa;--(5) British Breeds;--(6) The Lincolnshire;...
2. CHAPTER II.(24) Wool-bearing Animals;--(25) Structure of the Skin;--(26) Sebaceous follicles;--(27) Connexion of the Hair with the Skin--Yolk;--(28) Periodical decidence of Wool;--(29) Fal...
6. CHAPTER VI.(104) Introductory observations;--(105) Wounds;--(106) Stoppage of Bleeding;--(107) Removal of Extraneous Matter from Wounds;-- (108) Closure of Wounds;--(109) Bandaging;--(110)...
5. CHAPTER V.