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  • "Burdizzo" pincers for the bloodless castration of sheep, bulls, pigs, horses, dogs, etc. : recommended by the veterinary surgeons ... : inventor and sole maker: Dr. N. Burdizzo, Turin (Italy).
  • The popular diet for all young and immature stock : unequalled for quality and reasonable in price : as good for cattle as for sheep : Holland's Britannia lamb and calf food / F.E. Holland.
  • A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.
  • A young barefoot shepherdess and a little girl take refuge near a shrine during a storm. Lithograph by Z. Belliard after M.-Ph. Coupin de La Couperie.
  • A cow and two sheep in a field. Etching by J. Janson the elder, 17--.
  • A large wolf snarling from across a stream at a bleating lamb. Etching by W-S Howitt.
  • Heads of leopards, lions, and a sheep. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Going for a bag or two of Bibby's Dairy Cakelettes / sole manufacturers: J. Bibby & Sons.
  • Higham Ferrers Church and Free-School, Northamptonshire, England. Line engraving.
  • Stagger powders : for sheep and cattle : a reliable preparation...
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    Keep dry : per : carriage paid through : Messrs. Smith & Sons, 44 Magdalen Street, Norwich / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

    Francis Cupiss Ltd. | Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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    Devon drench : a famous and invaluable remedy for the disorders of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs : Especially so for red water, scouring, cold, colic and influenza, milk fever, costiveness, etc. : also as a cleansing drench for cows and ewes after calving and lambing and preventative of milk fever.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]
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    Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

    | Date: 1928
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    Physiology practicums : explicit directions for examining portions of the cat, and the heart, eye, and brain of the sheep, as an aid in the study of elementary physiology.

    Burt Green Wilder | Date: 1895
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    A rural landscape: a piping shepherd and two couples near a river with a village and mountains beyond; a rainbow to left. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.

    Peter Paul Rubens | Date: [between 1638? and 1659?] | Reference: 2491349i
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Cattle
Veterinary Drugs
Animals, Domestic
Horses
Agriculture
Physiology
Nervous System
Vivisection
Animal Experimentation
Fetal Development

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