Domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce commodities such as food, fiber and labor

A study of cows in various positions. Engraving.

An elaborate cross-section of Noah's ark, detailing the storing of provisions and livestock; scenes of loading and construction. Line engraving.

Super Solvitax : vitamin rich pure cod liver oil : stabilised and winterised / British Cod Liver Oils (Hull & Grimsby) Ltd.

Your organic questions answered / Soil Association.

Two cattle fighting while a third one lies facing away from them. Etching.

A bull standing with a cow eating hay from the ground. Etching.

A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.

A fat judge pinching and admiring the fat on the side of a fat bullock. Etching by J. Gillray, ca 1802.

Three trees by the road to a farm, with wooden hut and haystack. Pencil drawing.

xxii, 409 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 19 1/2 cm.

Animal husbandry for schools / by Merritt W. Harper.

2 volumes 855 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Cattle and dairy farming.

1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, colour, PAL ; 12 cm.

Sleepless Britain.

A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 13.4 x 7.6 cm

Christ washes the feet of the apostles; Mary Magdalene washes Christ's feet; a farmer washes his cattle's feet. Engraving.

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Animal husbandry for schools / by Merritt W. Harper.

Cattle and dairy farming.

Sleepless Britain.

A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

Christ washes the feet of the apostles; Mary Magdalene washes Christ's feet; a farmer washes his cattle's feet. Engraving.

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Animal husbandry for schools / by Merritt W. Harper.

Cattle and dairy farming.

Sleepless Britain.

A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine / by John Lawrence.

Christ washes the feet of the apostles; Mary Magdalene washes Christ's feet; a farmer washes his cattle's feet. Engraving.

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