Tipi e classi di mercato di bestiame vivo . e da drawingsmade a quel tempo, i bovini erano ponderous, ruvide, lento-maturingbests, e molto patchy con grandi grumi di sego. Gli idealsof quei giorni sono stati esemplificati da animali famosi come theDurham Ox, del peso di 3.024 libbre a cinque anni di età, eil White Heifer Che Ha Viaggiato, pesando 2.300 libbre. Thesewere primi Shorthorns. Tra i primi bovini Hereford, un toro, 85 86 Tipi e Classi di mercato di Live Stock il Generale, pesato 3.640 libbre a sei anni. Un altro toro, WelHngton, pesato 2.912 libbre, aveva una circonferenza di 11 piedi, 3inches, e meas

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Types and market classes of live stock . and from drawingsmade at that time, cattle were ponderous, rough, slow-maturingbeasts, and very patchy with great lumps of tallow. The idealsof those days were exemplified by such famous animals as theDurham Ox, weighing 3, 024 pounds at five years of age, andThe White Heifer That Traveled, weighing 2, 300 pounds. Thesewere early Shorthorns. Among early Hereford cattle, a bull, 85 86 Types and Market Classes of Live Stock The General, weighed 3, 640 pounds at six years. Another bull, WelHngton, weighed 2, 912 pounds, had a girth of 11 feet, 3inches, and measured 11 feet, 4 inches, from muzzle to tail-head.Another Hereford bull, Hamlet, weighed 2, 800 pounds, and asteer reached 2, 912 pounds. At the first Smithfield Fat StockShow held in London in 1799, a Hereford bullock described as8 feet, 11 inches, in length, 6 feet, 7 inches, in height, and 10 feet, 4 inches, in girth, won first prize and sold for $500. Another oxat the same show measured 7 feet in height, and 12 feet, 4 inches, in girth.. Fig. 16. Ideal of Early Beef Producers. The noted White Heifer That Travelled, a Shorthorn, calved about1806, bred and fed by Robert Colling, of Barmpton, near Darlington, in thecounty of Durham, England. A free-martin heifer, a non-breeder, fed to aweight of 2300 pounds, completely finished, and publicly e.xhibited throughthe principal agricultural counties of England to advertise the beef-makingqualities of the Shorthorn breed, particularly the herds of Charles and RobertColling, first noted improvers of the breed. From an engraving made whenshe was seven years old. The artist has undoubtedly refined the head hornsand bone to a considerable degree, yet the picture typifies in the size massive^ness, extreme fatness, and small bone of this animal the ideals of earlv beefproducers. ?^ In England and America the attainment of large weightscontinued to be the aim of beef producers until rather recenttimes. Early maturity was not given much attentio

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1910
• booksubjectlivesto
• bookyear1919