 But there are not only different breeds, both of cattle and sheep, but experienced and very good farmers differ very much in opinion as to which peculiarities of shape and size are to be preferred, even among animals of the same breed. It is therefore...  The New Sporting Magazine - Seite 3371839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1839 - 544 Seiten
...good shape, in all cases, ought to be aimed at. But there ore not only different breeds, both of caule and sheep, but experienced and very good farmers differ...shape and qualities he wishes to obtain, and steadily pursu* this object; it' he; does so, there is very little doubt but that he will succeed in having... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY, ALEBEMARLE STREET. - 1843 - 632 Seiten
...sufficient to say, therefore, that no male animal is fit to be used at all as a sire whose handling is not good, and that the more perfect his shape is the better....that he will succeed in having a herd of cattle or a flock of sheep possessing the characteristics which he at first intended they should possess ; but... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 544 Seiten
...desirable, before any man com" mences to breed either cattle or sheep, that ho should make " up his mind to the shape and qualities he wishes to obtain, "and steadily pursue this object." Lord Somerville, in speaking of the marvellous improvement of the New Leicester sheep, effected .by... | |
 | Physician and sanitarian, Martin Luther Holbrook - 1882 - 206 Seiten
...prophetic vision into futurity. Lord Spencer's skill and judgment were well known, and he writes : ' It is therefore very desirable, before any man commences...either cattle or sheep, that he should make up his mind to the shape and qualities he wishes to obtain, and steadily pursue this object.' Lord Somerville,... | |
 | Physician and sanitarian, Martin Luther Holbrook - 1882 - 206 Seiten
...desirable, before any man commences to breed either cattle or sheep, that he should make up his mind to the shape and qualities he wishes to obtain, and steadily pursue this object.' Lord Somerville, in speaking of the marvellous improvement of the new Leicester sheep effected by Bakewell... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 532 Seiten
...judgment were well known; and he writes,6 " It is therefore very desirable, before any man com" menccs to breed either cattle or sheep, that he should make " up his mind to the shape and qualities he wishes to obtain, "and steadily pursue this object." Lord Somerville,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1892 - 558 Seiten
...judgment were well known; and he writes,5 " It is therefore very desirable, before any man com" menees to breed either cattle or sheep, that he should make " up his mind to the shape and qualities he wishes to obtain, "and steadily pursue this object." Lord Somerville,... | |
 | Charles Clement Coe - 1895 - 638 Seiten
...rigorously and continuously in accordance with one unchanging test of fitness. Lord Spencer writes : — " It is therefore very desirable, before any man commences...either cattle or sheep, that he should make up his mind to the shape and qualities he wishes to attain, and steadily pursue this object." — (The Variation.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 734 Seiten
...judgment were well known ; and he writes,5 " it is therefore very desirable, before any man com" mences to breed either cattle or sheep, that he should make " up his mind to the shape and qualities he wishes to obtain, "and steadily pursue this object." Lord Somerville,... | |
 | Charles Sumner Plumb - 1922 - 560 Seiten
...almost prophetic vision into futurity. Lord Spencer's skill and judgment were well-known; and he writes: 'It is, therefore, very desirable, before any man...either cattle or sheep, that he should make up his mind to the shape and qualities he wishes to obtain, and steadily pursue this object.' Lord Somcrville,... | |
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