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Animal Breeding

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Vocabulary note for 'Seamalach' and 'caraideachadh', 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/13
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Vocabulary note probably collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, for 'Seamalach' and 'caraideachadh' describing the former as a heifer whose calf had died and the latter as when the calf of one cow is killed, its tail is cut off and tied to a [cloth] and placed on another calf which can then suckle both cows.

Dates: 7 August 1886