Stories
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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The Martians are coming
For over a hundred years, antagonistic alien invaders have been a popular focus for the imagined end of the world. But the destructive consequences of human behaviour is far more frightening.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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Reports on the diseases of cattle in the United States made to the Commissioner of Agriculture, with accompanying documents. / Department of Agriculture.
United States. Department of Agriculture.Date: 1869- Books
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Reports on the diseases of cattle in the United States, made to the Commissioner of Agriculture, with accompanying documents / Department of Agriculture.
United States. Department of Agriculture.Date: 1869- Books
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A treatise on pasturage. In two parts. I. - On the history thereof, and Advantages arising therefrom. II. - On the practice of it, or Method of Managing Sheep-Farms. With observations on the Woolen Manufacture. To which is added, an Essay on the general oeconomy and management of black cattle farms, under a breeding stock, and methods of curing and preventing diseases to which such Cattle are subject, including the management of the dairy. As also a short essay on the inclosures proper and expedient, on farms under a breeding stock, and the best and quickest method of executing them.
Macmillan, Anthony, fl. 1786.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Ephemera
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Rules of the County of Stafford Association for Protection Against Loss by the Cattle Plague : established September 1865.
Date: 1865- Books
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An account of the distemper among the horned cattle, at Caulk in Derbyshire, in 1783. And of the remedies recommended, for the cure, with observations. By Thomas Kirkland, M. D. Member of the Medical Society at Edinburgh.
Kirkland, Thomas, 1722-1798.Date: [1783]