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Livestock

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:

Lethals in ontogeny, 6 October 1961

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/118
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1958 - 1961. Volume 2 of 19.

Dates: 6 October 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from George Townsend Powell, 24 September 1901

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/23
Scope and Contents

Powell writes regarding the School of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture in New York, of which he is Director. He explains that the School was founded for the purpose of education along the lines of higher development in agriculture. They are hoping to establish a Natural History laboratory in order to study livestock and plants more effectively, for which Powell is seeking Ewart's advice.

Dates: 24 September 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1901

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir Claud Alexander, 07 November 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/30
Scope and Contents Alexander writes that he will buy the mare once he knows how much of his own livestock he has managed to sell. The agent at Somerford has promised to keep aside the head and legs of the dam of Alexander's polled cow if she is selected for the butcher, and Alexander will negotiate with his Norfolk friend for the head of the red polled cow. He asks for first refusal on one of Ewart's heifers by the black Chartley bull, and wonders whether the Chartleys are descended from the neighbouring...
Dates: 07 November 1910
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from William M. Rider, 09 January 1914

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/1
Scope and Contents

Rider thanks Ewart for the letter and books and states that he will shortly send Ewart photographs of two Holstein-Jersey cross-bred heifers and a tail-less calf. He is interested in beginning experiments with Siberian sheep and hopes to be able to exchange ram lambs with Ewart. He wonders whether the Agricultural Society of Scotland would be willing to send some livestock reports to Syracuse University.

Dates: 09 January 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1914

Life span, metabolic age and genetics, 1986

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Identifier: Coll-1362/2/110
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1986. Part 2.

Dates: 1986
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)

Livestock Housing. Edited by C M Wathes D R Charles. 1994. xi +428 pp. Illustrated. £55.00. Wallingford, Oxon, CAB International. ISBN 085198 774 5 [book review], 1995

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/812
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1995. Part 1.

Dates: 1995
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Roslin Institute

Livestock improvement in the United Kingdom, 21 March 1949

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Identifier: Coll-1362/1/61
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1947-1957. Volume 1 of 19.

Dates: 21 March 1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Animal Breeding Research Organisation (ABRO)

Livestock in Manitoba, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3304
Scope and Contents

Table of information on the number of livestock (horses, cattle, sheep and swine) in Manitoba, [Canada] from 1898 to 1904.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Livestock in Principal Countries, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1476
Scope and Contents

Table of the number of livestock (horses, mules, cattle, sheep, swine, goats and buffaloes) in principal countries from around the world between 1899 and 1903.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

[Livestock Market in North Africa], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3218
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a livestock market in North Africa with men selling donkeys, horses and other animals while women and children gather water and play in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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