A treatise on the choice, buying, and general management of live stock; comprising delineations and description of the principal breeds... / together with an Appendix on the improvement of British wool and on the destruction of vermin infesting farm-yards,&c.&c.

William Youatt

Date:: 1810

Credit: A treatise on the choice, buying, and general management of live stock; comprising delineations and description of the principal breeds... / together with an Appendix on the improvement of British wool and on the destruction of vermin infesting farm-yards,&c.&c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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