Domesticated ruminant bred for meat, wool, and milk

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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...

Per post : Mr. John Yeldham, Box 1301, J., G.P.O., Sydney, Australia / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

A couple in animal skins (Adam and Eve?) journeying with three children after the expulsion. Coloured stipple engraving.

Keep dry : per : carriage paid through : Messrs. Smith & Sons, 44 Magdalen Street, Norwich / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

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.

Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

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.

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.

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Keep dry : per : carriage paid through : Messrs. Smith & Sons, 44 Magdalen Street, Norwich / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

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.

Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

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.

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.

Sheep

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Keep dry : per : carriage paid through : Messrs. Smith & Sons, 44 Magdalen Street, Norwich / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.

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.

Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

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.

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.

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