Observations On Live Stock - Softcover

George Culley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371615534 ISBN 13: 9780371615539

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Observations On Live Stock by George Culley. This early 19th-century British husbandry treatise surveys the principal domestic animals—horses, cattle, sheep, and swine—offering practical guidance on selection, breeding, and management to improve stock. Culley argues that improved farming depends on sound stock knowledge and cross-breeding, and he discusses firsthand experiences with various English and Scottish breeds, including long-horned and short-horned cattle, the polled Galloway, kiloes, Alderney, and the Highland breeds, and the famed Bakewell improvements. He compares breeds across regions, noting how climate, pasture, and management affect fattening, milk yield, and meat quality, and he advocates strategic crossings to combine desirable traits. The work includes extended sections on cattle and sheep, with specific descriptions of rams and ewes, as well as notes on breeding cattle imported into America by Heaton in 1792, and observations on the practicalities of fattening, turnips, and feeding regimes. Aimed at farmers and breeders, the book blends observation, anecdote, and contemporaneous agricultural theory to promote rational stock-raising as foundational to economic rural life.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371615534
• ISBN 13: 9780371615539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122