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Book I : Agriculture Book II : Arboriculture and Viniculture Book III : Livestock Farming Book IV : Bee-Keeping (Apiculture)

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A simple book, and one that stimulated much other work - in some ways a path-making publication for animal scientists and livestock production experts

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...His jeopardy increases when he shelters a teenage runaway sickened by fasting. Their worldview shatters when they harbor a Yata woman raised to be livestock instead of a god. But Crossroads itself is imperiled. Hidden in the far woods, a secret Yata militia is preparing to alter the balance of power....

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...owder from great burlap bags into Destiny Farm's food and water supply for livestock. Livestock. Small, graceful Yata, overcome with urges to mate, ... ...ers gripped the mug, which remained mockingly empty. "You're talking about livestock," NightShout said. "I'm talking about a Yata woman." He wante... ...most suffocated in the desert. Even under awnings protecting Destiny Farm's livestock from the sun, she'd been buried in a furnace of body heat. It ...

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...trients they need for healthy physical and mental development. Increasing dairy production is a major challenge for those engaged in international livestock development. Moreover, there are environmental concerns about livestock production in fragile landscapes, so increasing milk supply should be done in an environmentally sustainable manner. Research can help meet thi...

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...more the four times its own population from less intensive agriculture than its neighbours, Thailand is poised to benefit from predicted expansion in livestock products demand. Poverty reduction, and improved education, research, and legal and social systems, which may be addressed in the wake of the recent Asian financial crisis, stand to benefit from popular concern for ...

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...nut Rubber Fibre, Extraction and Other Crops Fibre Crops Oil and Extraction Crops Other Crops Fruits and Vegetables Crop Seeds Summary Chapter 9 - Livestock and Fisheries Animal Production Systems Buffalo and Cattle Dairy Cattle Pig Poultry Aquatic Animals Freshwater Marine Brackish Waters and Shrimp Culture Fish Production Goats, Sheep and Elephants The Future for Li...

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...more the four times its own population from less intensive agriculture than its neighbours, Thailand is poised to benefit from predicted expansion in livestock products demand. Poverty reduction, and improved education, research, and legal and social systems, which may be addressed in the wake of the recent Asian financial crisis, stand to benefit from popular concern for ...

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...nut Rubber Fibre, Extraction and Other Crops Fibre Crops Oil and Extraction Crops Other Crops Fruits and Vegetables Crop Seeds Summary Chapter 9 - Livestock and Fisheries Animal Production Systems Buffalo and Cattle Dairy Cattle Pig Poultry Aquatic Animals Freshwater Marine Brackish Waters and Shrimp Culture Fish Production Goats, Sheep and Elephants The Future for Li...

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...The answers cover such topics as: - why livestock are critical to food security - why free trade and markets can't solve food shortages - why aid shouldn't insist poor countries follow our model - how to reconcile science and commerce with popular ideals - how...

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...Question and Answer Acknowledgements Author’s Preface The 10 Questions Chapter 1 Introducing Food Security Seeing Livestock Correctly Who is Food Insecure? Animal Products in Food Security Animal Production in a Food-insecure World Animal Production Systems Future Animal Production in Food Security Answering the Question Chapte...

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...uel Wadham at the University of Melbourne in the 1950s. From that base he was instrumental in the creation in Africa of what became the International Livestock Research Institute – one of the 15 green revolution centres that support third world research. Having expanded the Faculty of Agriculture and modernized the agricultural science course at Melbourne as Dean, he retir...

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... the earthly and placed living things in great jeopardy. To protect their precious livestock, they used to herd it between two bonfires in what bec... ...ssue). Instead, they burrow into the live flesh of warm blooded creatures, such as livestock, or humans. The female mates only once in her lifeti...

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...es while the owners were away. Starting small with tableware and occasionally livestock, their criminal appetites were growing and they were becomi... ...s that included a big barn and two or three corrals, suggesting some sort of livestock ranch -- probably cattle, though none were visible. Daisy ... ...n E. Richman 104 full of new pumping equipment behind one of his barns. No livestock, just a lot of new pumping equipment. Does that mean anythin...

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...nt, energy-conserving, and green construction technologies pioneered; the diets of livestock should be adapted to restrict biological emissions; de...

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...noon watchin’ the cattle judging, the buggy races and just walkin’ though the livestock barns. Mrs. Winters had entered a cooking contest and won a...

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...d 91 The Plague of Frogs 92 The Plague of Gnats 93 The Plague of Flies 93 The Plague of Boils 93 The Plague of Hail 93 The Plague of Locust and Livestock 95 The Plague of Darkness 95 The Plague on the Firstborn 96 The Passover 97 The Lord’s Supper 102 Why Judas did not drink from the Cup 104 The Clothes of Jesus Christ 106 God’s Choice of Names 108 The Number...

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... 163 Trade and Commerce 164 Subsistence Agriculture and Livestock Breeding 164 Preparedness for Future Natural Disasters 165 Rehabilitation of Forests and Forestry Resources 166 Planning and Implementation of the National Plan 167 ...

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... Distribution of Thai Bovines, 1999-2008 30 Comparison of Breed Traits 36 Production Performance of Bulls 41 Criteria for Bull Selection 42 Regional Livestock Markets in 2009 44 Official Bovine Slaughter Numbers, 1999-2008 58 Hide Imports, 1999-2008 64 Hide Exports, 1999-2008 65 Trim Green Weight to Liveweight 76 Leather Defects by Shape 80 Grading for Raw Hide in Thaila...

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... Hetty’s chickens began laying golden eggs, and her prize Guernsey produced explosive milk. Nevada ranch folk are tough but are they ready for mutant livestock? (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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...(1985) Natural resources: negligible Agriculture: cotton (main crop), sugar, livestock Major industries: tourism 15.2%, construc- tion 7.7%, manufactu... ..., iron, manganese, oil, uranium Agriculture: main products cereals, oilseed, livestock products; major world exporter of temperate zone foodstuffs Fis... ...eum, timber, magnesite, aluminum, coal, lignite, cement, copper Agriculture: livestock, forest products, cereals, potatoes, sugar beets; 84% self- suf... ...rate 59.378 Belgian francs= US$1 (1985) Natural resources: coal Agriculture: livestock production predomi- nates; main crops grains, sugar beets, flax... ...ain products sugarcane, citrus fruits, corn, molasses, rice, beans, bananas, livestock products, honey; net importer of food; an illegal producer of c... ...ed commercially; main food crops corn, cassava, yams, rice, sorghum, millet; livestock, fish Fishing: catch 21,000 metric tons (1983) Major industries... ...otash, coal Agriculture: principal crops are corn, sorghum, millet, cowpeas; livestock raised and exported; heavy dependence on im- ported food Major ... ...k raised and exported; heavy dependence on im- ported food Major industries: livestock processing; mining of diamonds, copper, nickel, coal, salt, sod... ...mber of: Commonwealth Economy GDP: $77.1 million (1983) Agriculture: limited livestock (including poultry), fish, fruit, and vegetables Fishing: 293 m...

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...ds of an economic species that irrigated fields, planted crops, and raised livestock. With growing awareness of the idea of property—now in the fo... ... used the then-revolutionary InfoTech to record sales of land, crops, and livestock, not to mention taxes, payrolls, and tributes. Clay tablets the... ... large herds. The Mongols hunted small animals and—given the chance—stole livestock and women from neighbor tribes on the grassier steppes. The Mo...

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...ds of an economic species that irrigated fields, planted crops, and raised livestock. With growing awareness of the idea of property—now in the form... ... used the then-revolutionary InfoTech to record sales of land, crops, and livestock, not to mention taxes, payrolls, and tributes. Clay tablets the... ... large herds. The Mongols hunted small animals and—given the chance—stole livestock and women from neighbor tribes on the grassier steppes. The Mong...

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... look what happened to him. There’s also been a rash of suspicious fires and livestock kills. I’m afraid.” “This is more serious than I thought. M... ... around here. Sad thing, a house fire in the winter. Even sadder to see your livestock taken for unpaid taxes. Best thing for all you is to just pa...

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...adawn honored the dragon’s now adult offspring. Not one farmer begrudged the livestock hunted from their fields, for without Zara’s aid there would ha... ... from their fields, for without Zara’s aid there would have been no farms or livestock to be taken. Too bad the fairies didn’t feel the same. It had b...

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...ll in grain (international aid agencies provided the rest). The number of heads of livestock - the only form of savings in devastated Afghanistan -...

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...d what was available: they had to plant, irrigate, weed, tend crops, and tend livestock. This involved much more time; but it also produced more f... ...aves all their lives. Why? Because as far as the men are concerned: their livestock is more valuable than their women. Because any accumulation... ...ountless agricultural cultures all around the world today: you will find that Livestock represents their status. How many cows or goats you have de... ... determines your standing. Women are ignored except as a means to raise more livestock. But since in some areas where the men cannot have multiple... ...nd became a war nation. They began amassing grain in granaries, and food and livestock. They became wealthy enough to go to war. They accumulated... ...ad Indian and eating it. The Jamestown residents ate their way through their livestock, their pets, mice, rats--and each other. Many turned to can... ...er communities could not sneak in at night and steal their goods, or food, or livestock. These Keeps became specialized for holding or keeping d... ...ich requires a large house, an even larger barn, 200 cleared acres of fields, livestock, fences to keep in that livestock, a smithy to make all the i... ...xcuse for slash-and-burn farming, and slash-and-burn cattle raising. Penning livestock, sheep. Pigs, all manner of animals in unnatural penned priso...

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... was that winter when the cold and the snow killed many of us, us and our livestock. Drifts hung lean-tos on our cabin. Papa shot a deer. Wolves used...

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...he test, at first by giving him power over his property, but forbidding him to touch his person. Satan begins by taking away all of Job's riches, his livestock, his house, his servants, and his children; a series of four messengers informs him that they have perished in various tragedies. In the meantime, only three of Job's friends come to visit him in his misfortune — El...

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...ilas, what a horrible idea!” cried I. “All the rest of us, men, women, and livestock, save only these four pork ers, are bedevilled with one grief or...

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...t, with mild gleams of sunlight on decaying foliage; and after luggage and livestock had been dropped at the pension Susy confessed that she had promi...

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...hey heard, and Mrs. Kendal was found sitting on the floor at play with the livestock. They had come to fetch her to see the church and schools, and on...

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...of the capital city. It was the countryside, so it did smell a little like livestock and an outhouse. I was at my uncle’s house eating breakfast and m...

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... Mrs. Alving. Everything of mine is insured—the house and its contents, my livestock—everything. Manders. Naturally. They are your own property. I do ...

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...dropped, and so the latter part of the day was spent in a visit to all the livestock, Fulk laden with Alured, and Jaquetta with tit bits for each and ...