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  • Animal husbandry: poultry
  • Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Sherpa with young yak. The economic emphasis of the Khumbu is on animal husbandry, and the breeding and tending of yaks and cattle was an important occupation when this photograph was taken. Yaks command a good price. On walled, flat terraces, Sherpas cultivate their staple diet of potatoes, barley, buckwheat, and in lower areas, rice. In this picture, taken at altitude 2900 metres, the land sustains the commercial cultivation of medicinal herbs although increases in production are limited by environmental degradation, largely through soil erosion.
  • Feeding stuffs (rationing) order, 1949 / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • Feeding stuffs (rationing) order, 1949 / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • Feeding stuffs (rationing) order, 1949 / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • Feeding stuffs (rationing) order, 1949 / Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland, Ministry of Food.
  • Folio 18 recto of Persian MS 559 (book on the horse)
  • Farm cats : the farmers friends / The Cats Protection League.
  • Farm cats : the farmers friends / The Cats Protection League.
  • The epitome of the art of husbandry. Comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... To which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit-trees, and improving of an orchard: with directions for taking, ordering, teaching, and curing of singing birds, and other useful addition / By J.B. Gent.
  • The epitome of the art of husbandry. Comprizing all necessary directions for the improvement of it ... To which is annexed by way of appendix, a new method of planting fruit-trees, and improving of an orchard: with directions for taking, ordering, teaching, and curing of singing birds, and other useful addition / By J.B. Gent.
  • Going for a bag or two of Bibby's Dairy Cakelettes / sole manufacturers: J. Bibby & Sons.
  • Liverine pig meal : for pigs of all ages at all times : worth its weight in gold... / Liverine Limited.
  • Condition powder for horses, cattle and sheep.
  • Going for a bag or two of Bibby's Dairy Cakelettes / sole manufacturers: J. Bibby & Sons.
  • Going for a bag or two of Bibby's Dairy Cakelettes / sole manufacturers: J. Bibby & Sons.
  • Going for a bag or two of Bibby's Dairy Cakelettes / sole manufacturers: J. Bibby & Sons.
  • Horse and cattle medicines... / Fowke & Aston, chemists, Stafford.
  • Veterinary embrocation for the field, farm, kennel and stable.
  • Veterinary embrocation for the field, farm, kennel and stable.
  • Ovum for eggs : Ovum ensures healthy poultry / [J. Thorley Ltd.]
  • Rules of the County of Stafford Association for Protection Against Loss by the Cattle Plague : established September 1865.
  • Rules of the County of Stafford Association for Protection Against Loss by the Cattle Plague : established September 1865.
  • Rules of the County of Stafford Association for Protection Against Loss by the Cattle Plague : established September 1865.
  • Ovum for eggs : Ovum ensures healthy poultry / [J. Thorley Ltd.]
  • Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
  • Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
  • Scour & diarrhoea mixture : very effective for use in cases of "curding" and obstinate cases of diarrhoea in foals, calves, sheep and pigs, and also for severe cases of dysentery or flux. It warms the stomach and irritated membranes, and neutralizes all acidity of the bowels.
  • Bloodletting on horse, Hindi, 18th C
  • Eye operation on horse, Hindi, 18th C