Cattle and Cattle-breedersWilliam Blackwood, 1869 - 135 sider |
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... twenty years . It was a good year , and we divided £ 15 of profit . This gave me encouragement . I yearly increased my spec- ulations , and gradually got into my father's business at the Falkirk markets and Hallow Fair . My father was ...
... twenty years . It was a good year , and we divided £ 15 of profit . This gave me encouragement . I yearly increased my spec- ulations , and gradually got into my father's business at the Falkirk markets and Hallow Fair . My father was ...
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... twenty out of sixty , a neutral party and a good judge ought to divide the cattle : it should not be the buyer , and ... twenty from the worst side of the sixty , and he will run the number off to a beast or two . It is very quickly done ...
... twenty out of sixty , a neutral party and a good judge ought to divide the cattle : it should not be the buyer , and ... twenty from the worst side of the sixty , and he will run the number off to a beast or two . It is very quickly done ...
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... twenty years ago . I never was so much in want of assistance from my friends . The price of cattle had fallen very much after the Mich- aelmas Tryst . Turnips were bad in East Lothian . I had been on a visit to Mr Buist , and met Mr ...
... twenty years ago . I never was so much in want of assistance from my friends . The price of cattle had fallen very much after the Mich- aelmas Tryst . Turnips were bad in East Lothian . I had been on a visit to Mr Buist , and met Mr ...
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... twenty remaining cattle , and could not even get a bid for them . Of all the good turns my friends did for me , this was the best . I came out with a small profit , while the losses sus- tained by other parties at the market were heavy ...
... twenty remaining cattle , and could not even get a bid for them . Of all the good turns my friends did for me , this was the best . I came out with a small profit , while the losses sus- tained by other parties at the market were heavy ...
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... twenty beasts , and keeping one half on yellow tur- nips , and one half on swedes , both lots getting full turnips . Those on the swedes shot far ahead in the strawyard of those upon the yellows . When taken . up from grass , however ...
... twenty beasts , and keeping one half on yellow tur- nips , and one half on swedes , both lots getting full turnips . Those on the swedes shot far ahead in the strawyard of those upon the yellows . When taken . up from grass , however ...
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