Harvest: An Anthology of Farm WritingWheeler McMillen Appleton-Century, 1964 - 424 pages |
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Page 128
... cattle refused to allow their feet to be picked up and held as the smith did when shoeing a horse . Hence some blacksmith shops were equipped with a cumber- some appliance known as " ox stocks . " This was a strong chute into which the ...
... cattle refused to allow their feet to be picked up and held as the smith did when shoeing a horse . Hence some blacksmith shops were equipped with a cumber- some appliance known as " ox stocks . " This was a strong chute into which the ...
Page 291
... cattle to provide milk and other livestock products for their crews . Workers on ship are most likely to pick up infected material from the discharge of slobbering mouths and festering feet of diseased cows . September days in South ...
... cattle to provide milk and other livestock products for their crews . Workers on ship are most likely to pick up infected material from the discharge of slobbering mouths and festering feet of diseased cows . September days in South ...
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An Anthology of Farm Writing Wheeler McMillen. cause of Texas fever in cattle . The research job , which cost about sixty - five thousand dollars , has been estimated to save the cattle industry forty million dollars annually . Smith ...
An Anthology of Farm Writing Wheeler McMillen. cause of Texas fever in cattle . The research job , which cost about sixty - five thousand dollars , has been estimated to save the cattle industry forty million dollars annually . Smith ...
Contents
Christopher Columbus Turns in a Crop | 3 |
Much More Corne was Planted | 9 |
PERLEY POORE How the Pig Helped to Make Massa | 16 |
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