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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
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Are you still nursing?
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
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A concise treatise on the art of angling. Confirmed by actual experience, and minute observations, Exempt from Redundancies, and superfluities, which tend more to perplex, than instruct. With The proper Methods for Breeding and Feeding Fish, and of making Fish ponds, Stews, &c. with several Arcana never before made Public. To which is added the compleat fly-fisher. By Thomas Best, Gent. Late of his Majesty's Drawing Room in the Tower.
Best, Thomas.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A concise treatise on the art of angling. Confirmed by actual experience, and minute observations, Exempt from Redundancies, and Superfluities, which tend more to perplex, than instruct, with The proper Methods for Breeding and Feeding Fish, and of making Fish-Ponds, Stews, &c. With Several Arcana never before made Public. To which is added the compleat fly-fisher, The Game-Laws relative to Angling, and Frognostics of the Weather, independent of the Barometer. The second edition, corrected and enlarged, by Thomas Best, Gent.
Best, Thomas.Date: [1789?]- Books
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The farriers new guide: containing first, the anatomy of a horse, being an exact and compendious Discription of all his Parts; with their Actions and Uses: Illustrated with Figures curiously engrav'd on Copper-Plates. Secondly, an account of all the diseases incident to horses, with their Signs, Causes, and Methods of Cure; wherein many Defects in the Farriers Practice, are now carefully supply'd, their Errors expos'd and amended, and the Art greatly improv'd and advanc'd, according to the latest Discoveries. The Whole interspers'd with many curious and useful Observations concerning Feeding and Exercise, &c. By W. Gibson.
Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750.Date: 1720- Videos
Man and energy; the pond ecosystem; methods of feeding.
Date: 1992- Books
Some methods for membrane feeding of laboratory reared, neotropical sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) / R.D. Ward, R.D. Lainson and J.J. Shaw.
Ward, R. D.Date: 1978?]