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Animal and dietary variation in the absorption and metabolism of phosphorus by sheep, 1984

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/840
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1984. Volume 18 of 19.

Dates: 1984
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Deaths from copper toxicity of sheep at pasture and the use of fresh seaweed, 19 November 1977

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/615
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1977. Volume 11 of 19.

Dates: 19 November 1977
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Differences in feed intake and the performance of Finn x Dorset ewes during late pregnancy, 1975

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/519
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1975. Volume 9 of 19.

Dates: 1975
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fodder in Reserve, Uardry [Homestead], New South Wales, [Australia], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1868
Scope and Contents

Photograph of stacks of 'fodder in reserve, what every pastoralist should have' in rows in a field at Uardry [Homestead] in [Hay], New South Wales, [Australia] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to Henry John Elwes from James Cossar Ewart, 20 August 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/46
Scope and Contents

Ewart writes that he is enclosing a report on the wool from Watson, Wallace's assistant, although he has not yet heard about the Iceland wool. He would like to have the Ronaldsay sheep, and understands that they live between a wall and the sea and feed mainly on seaweed.

Dates: 20 August 1911
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George Henderson, 20 June 1914

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/14
Scope and Contents

Henderson writes that when he was in New Zealand he was told that the sheep could not live due to the lack of phosphates in the soil, but that the bullocks there feed upon shellfish.

Dates: 20 June 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Manure Feeding Values, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1422
Scope and Contents

Advertisement by the Northumberland County Council Farm, Cockle Park and Durham College of Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the influence of manures on feeding value of tree-field pasture. Soil, poor stiff boulder clay over six seasons (1897-1902) results per acre of a flock of sheep's live weight gain or loss.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Mode of Occupying Turnips with Feeding Sheep, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1246
Scope and Contents

Illustration of sheep feeding in a turnip field.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Mutton Cost, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2082
Scope and Contents

Table showing the cost of mutton with sheep food pending per 100 lbs. liveweight.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Relative growth of incisor arcade breadth and eating rate in cattle and sheep, 1987

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/250
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1987. Part 2.

Dates: 1987
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Names
Field, A C, fl1966 5
Wiener, Gerald, 1926-2023 (geneticist; former deputy director of the Animal Breeding Research Organisation) 5
Woolliams, John A, fl1978 (scientist) 2
Armstrong College (University of Durham). Durham College of Science (1871 -) 1
Black, W J M, fl1974 1
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Dingwall, R A, fl1984 1
Elwes, Henry John, 1846-1922 (traveller and botanist) 1
Ewart, James Cossar, 1851-1933 (zoologist and professor of natural history, University of Edinburgh) 1
Henderson, George, fl 1914 (surgeon) 1
Herbert, J G, fl1976 1
Illius, A W, fl1987 1
Land, Roger Burton, 1940-1988 (animal geneticist, director, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research) 1
Munro, C S, fl1984 1
Murray, J I, fl1987 1
Northumberland (England). County Council (1900 -) 1
Purser, A F, fl1956 1
Shevah, Y, fl1974 1
Smith, Charles, fl1959 1
Suttle, N F, fl1978 1
Taylor, St Clair S, fl 1950-1975 (geneticist) 1
Uardry Station (1864-2012) 1
Wallace, Robert, Professor, 1853-1939 (professor of agriculture and rural economy) 1
Watson, James Alexander Scott, 1889-fl 1911 (professor of agriculture, University of Edinburgh) 1
Wood, Jean, fl1969 1
Woolliams, Carol, fl1982 1
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